Moscow RIver

View from Sparrow Hills (Lenin Hills) at Moscow State University over the Moskva River. "Sparrow Hills (Воробьевы Горы, pron. Varabyovi Gori), which afford a panorama of the valley of the Moskva and of the old city of the Tzars, especially fine at sunset".--Baedeker 1914. EE1975076p1

Moscow

July 24th 1975
An Aeroflot flight brought us from Leningrad to Moscow. We stayed at an Intourist hotel. Sightseeing in Moscow focused on Red Square and the Kremlin. I'd always waned to see St. Basil's Cathedral since reading about it in a vintage National Geographic magazine. There was also a visit to the famous GUM (Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyy Magazin) store off Red Square. GUM was described in the West ... 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

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