ST PETERSBURG

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (VILNIUS AND ST PETERSBURG)

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September 18th 2007
here i am in russia. left warsaw last thursday. it was interesting to visit, everything was reconstructed from ruins after wwII. the oldest parts were rebuilt in exactly the same style as before, though it is very hard to tell. despite the ketchup incident and a spat with a photo shop guy who accused my camera memory card of giving his computer a virus when i asked him to make a cd from it, it was ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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