A St. Petersburg man playing Gorodki

Gorodki is a traditional Russian sport not unlike bowling in which the object is to knock down an arrangement of skittles from a set distance with a heavy stick.

Midnight bus to St. Petersburg

September 22nd 2007
Growing up in the eighties, Russia was terribly exotic. I believed there was an actual iron curtain, and that if someone could just work out how to open it, then everything would be fine. I had lots of perceptions based mainly on news reporting (biased), childish interpretations of news reporting (biased) and the occasional bad movie (or baddie in a bad movie... enough said). Ok, so I'm more so ... 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

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