Xmas decoration 1

Day #25: Perm

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April 27th 2013
Walked round a museum today, where I learnt that during Communist times Russians were discouraged from practising religion, which meant that Christmas decorations were produced that bore no resemblance to anything that one would normally associate with Christmas, featuring instead things like vegetables and spacemen. I also learnt that when Christian missionaries first reached the Urals, they f ... 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