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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]
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] Blog: Insert Cliche Russian Phrase Here
Date: November 10th 2006
It is very damp in Lithuania and my hands are cold. Typing is difficult. Well, when you last pretended to read my blog, I had just left Tomsk/Novosibirsk and was on my way to Nizhny Novgorod (previously Gorky, after the writer). I spent two uneventful nights on the train, with only a screaming child to interrupt my reading (my Russian isn't so good, but I figure most of what he said was 'No! It ... read more
Date: November 10th 2006
It is very damp in Lithuania and my hands are cold. Typing is difficult. Well, when you last pretended to read my blog, I had just left Tomsk/Novosibirsk and was on my way to Nizhny Novgorod (previously Gorky, after the writer). I spent two uneventful nights on the train, with only a screaming child to interrupt my reading (my Russian isn't so good, but I figure most of what he said was 'No! It ... read more
