Listvyanka Church

Listvyanka (Lake Baikal)

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July 19th 2012
Our train arrived on time and we seem to be coping well with the time chages, we work up about 6am local time which isn't terrible. Fortunately the agency had booked travel between Irkutsk and the small lake side village Listvyanka so we were met by a local and bundled into a car much to the annoyance of Ben who not only hadn't booked transport but also hadn't booked a hotel yet (he ow ... 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