Winter Palace in the snow

St Petersburg

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February 28th 2007
After all the hype in the last blog entry our train from Moscow was brilliant, we must have had our fingers burnt by the trans Siberian where the people in third class were alcoholic gold toothed skinheads! The train to St Petersburg was full of families and middle aged couples. We had a group of Russian uni graduates next to us who could speak English so we winded up chatting away having a few ja ... 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