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entrance to fortress

last full day in Russia

July 17th 2011
Today is my last day in Russia, and I need to do a couple of things I didn't get to do when I was in St P at the beginning of my holiday. So earlier in the day off I trotted to the Peter and Paul fortress which was a good 40 minute walk along the riverside. I walked though a walkway that was held up by statues, I earwigged an english guide saying that it was said that these statues held all the wo ... read more
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Russian Flag 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
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