A frosty Red Square.

Long haul.

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December 26th 2005
My train to Kiev was at half past 4 in the afternoon. Before I said goodbye to the others there was time to go inside the Cathedral of St. Vasili for half an hour. It is majestic from the outside, but cramped and full of souvenir stalls inside. I made my way from Red Square to Kievskii vokzal with a lot of trouble. I had never used the metro on my own before, and finding the connections I neede ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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