Church built on the site of the Romanov's murder

Trees, trees and more trees...

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September 20th 2007
...for 26 hours. Well, that's what it felt like. But first Moscow. We did the big sites, well, most of them - Red Square was shut both times we went due to some event that had been going on. Luckily we could get round the side and see most of it from a distance but it also meant that Lenin's Tomb was closed (though I have a feeling I'd read somewhere that he was away being rewaxed anyway!). Not ... read more

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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