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Moscow

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July 13th 2012
We arrived in Moscow at the unholy time of 5:11, meaning we had just managed to scrape about 3 hours of quality sleep. Fortunately this time we had a hotel transfer organised by the agency so we didn't have to fight with the metro and the cyrillic alphabet in our sleep deprived state. Our rather grumpy driver took us to our hotel which was about 15 minutes outside of the city - and also in com ... 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