From the city to the countryside and our adventures on the Russian roads
September 27th 2007 A change of pace from the big city hustle of Moscow to the country quiet of Suzdal. Referred to as an 'open air museum' (by which they mean nothing has changed here for hundreds of years) Suzdal is one of the 'Golden Ring' towns - former seats of power in centuries past. It's a sleepy town of churches (thirty-three of them in nine square kilometres we were informed by our guide) with autumn colo
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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 
