Love those onion domes!

First day in Putin's patch

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August 31st 2007
Hi again. Not sure if I'm asleep or awake as it is now Friday evening, and we have settled into our Moscow hotel after a nightmare schedule out of Iceland. Our flight from Keflavik was 1 am, so after a leisurely fish meal in Grindavik (worst of the week, but I had to try saltfish, the mainstay of the Iceland economy for many years). Heather's plaice was also pretty poor, so I fear the place ha ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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