Siberian flamingoes

Day #30: Easter day in Russia

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May 13th 2013
Today was Easter Day in Russia, a national holiday and day of celebration. Like Christmas in the UK, it is celebrated very religiously by some, but more out of tradition by most of the population. In Russia there is no chocolate egg tradition, but instead it is traditional to decorate boiled eggs, either by dipping them in coloured dye, or by sticking onto them specially-produced decorated wrap ... 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