Ready to go

Heading east from Moscow

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July 19th 2004
We’re in the train for more than six hours now - so far the train looks great and the time flies by. This morning we took it easy. First a long and abundant breakfast at the hotel, and then we checked out around noon. We took metro to the city center just to spend few moments in the Alexandrovsky Garden in front of Kremlin before catching the train eastwards. A piece of pizza ea ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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