A long day.

Mixed up.

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November 24th 2005
Minus 5 degrees on the way to school this morning. It didn't feel uncomfortable; it is the dry cold that is refreshing if you are properly wrapped up. I will buy a winter coat if I can find a knee-length black woollen one, just like Jamie's. There was one in a suit shop on ulitsa Svobody but it's too big. Viktor's class filled my head with useless figures about the Russian tax system. We also t ... 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