Patriarchs Pond

Moscow

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December 4th 2007
Written: 12/4/07 Well today was our second official day in Moscow. Moscow has been fairly nice so far. We have not done a lot. Yesterday we went to Patriarchs Pond and Bulgakov’s apartment. Bulgakov is the writer of the Russian novel The Master and the Margarita. It’s a great book that we had to read this semester. I loved it. Patriarchs Pond is where the opening seen of the novel. It w ... 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