Church on ulitsa Bolshaya Oktyabr'skaya.

What a difference a day makes.

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December 5th 2005
Neither myself nor Chiara imagined that it could be minus 8 this morning, but my guess of minus 5 was closest. It was a very cold walk to school! Yulia's class was good. We finished the story about the plumber - his two house calls are to a lonely old man and a young boy with no parents, so he arranges for them to live together - and talked a bit about it. I slept well last night so I felt awak ... 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