Market in Irkutsk

From Russia with love

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May 10th 2005
Holiday on ice We didn't know what to expect when we walked up the stairs to the little wooden house in Severobaikalsk. For a start we just hoped that somebody would be home to open the door. We knocked three times and waited. After a while the 70+ female housekeeper stuck her face out. She had a puzzled but not unwelcoming look so we took heart: "Is Rashid living here?" He was and we were ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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