The Square...

Running around in Russia

---

August 10th 2007
Hello, hello, From Irkutsk in Russia, to Moscow and on to St Petersburg - crossing the country took time, but the experience was fantastic. We were on a train with at least two full cars of Mongolian Merchants, so we always knew when a stop was coming as the halls would fill with the commotion of the merchants getting their products together and to the appropriate window or area they would clai ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

---

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