Our train route

Day 282 - Boarding the Trans-Siberian 'Express'

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April 10th 2007
Today’s weather was glorious and the walk down to the Kremlin, though cold, was fresh and well needed. We had a very informative tour within the Kremlin walls, seeing the buildings, places of interests and the inside of Russian Orthodox churches and cathedrals. The piece de la resistance was the two exhibits of the Diamond exhibit and also the Armoury museum… The Diamond exhibit is two rooms ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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