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St Petersburg

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May 6th 2014
So I have been incredibly terrible in adding blog posts and I am becoming dangerously close to forgetting everything that happened in Russia so I'm now just going to create a list of stuff that happened. 6 May St Petersburg: The Germans went out on their own this day so the girls went to the State Hermitage for the morning. We lost Fairlie in the morning which was quite stressful: the queues ... 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