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Notes from Moscow

February 26th 2007
I am already in Love with Moscow. We are told its warm this week (-6C), however there is a biting wind (-12C) that freezes your face off. We've been to all the famous sights including Red Square, the Kremlin, St Basils Cathedral and the GUM store. Yesterday we visited the statue park to hang with retired sculptures of Lenin and Stalin, mixed with new sculptures of everything from houses to ice pig ... read more
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Russian Flag 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
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