Big hat and Lee

Moscow

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February 23rd 2007
After 5 days on the train we were really ready to get flying into Moscow, however the maximum -15c weather has really inhibited what we have been able to do. Its unbelievably cold I have resorted to double layers of thermals and I've bought a huge russian fur hat! Clare has the same, well she looks like a garden gnome at the mo! We have been around the main sites, St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Sq ... 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