St Basil's Cathedral

Moscow Time

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July 15th 2011
Wednesday 13th July – Why does it always rain on me? After an early arrival into Moscow, a battle to recognize the Cyrillic version of the metro stop we needed and almost giving up and checking into an expensive hotel, we found our base for the next couple of days. Petrovka Loft is an up-market hostel with what we discovered was a brilliant shower – much needed after 3 nights on trains. Once ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more