The View

Moscow - here we come!

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July 17th 2004
And this is where it all begins. Our Trans-Siberian crossing. We left from The Hague for Schiphol very early, and there we met the other two travel companions. We boarded Scandinavian airlines with stop over in Copenhagen, and before we realised, we were cruising over Moscow. Huge. Lots of green. The first impressions are based on what we saw out of the airplain window. Too much forests actually! ... 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