A Church near Kirova.

A lesson learned.

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December 9th 2005
For some reason the bang on my bedroom door came an hour and a half earlier today. I did everything as usual but went back to bed at 8. It was still dark outside and I was tired after last night. I woke up at 11.20 and hurried two hours late to Yartek, forgetting to put on my woolly hat. As I walked past the thermometer on ulitsa Svobody it read minus 11, and the wind in my face made it feel ev ... 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