Cross marks the spot

Tsars, snow and babushkas in Ekaterinburg

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April 28th 2007
Evgeny's friend Vitaly, a retired airforce colonel and former MIG pilot, now working as a nightwatch man in Evgeny's research institute (such is the state of the Russian pension system), drives us to our home for the next 2 days. Vitaly started learning English at the age of 70 and tries out a few phrases on us. V impressive. We say goodbye and climb up 4 flights of stairs in the soviet style apar ... 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