Entrance to restaurant

The diversity of St. Petersburg

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April 2nd 2007
After another overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg (again, with little sleep), we arrived and were whisked off onto another city tour. Tsar Nicholas I was reigning during the construction of the Moscow - St. Petersburg railway and our guide told us that when he was drawing the line between the two cities, he accidentally drew around part of his thumb, creating a curve that is 17 km long! ... 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