Ice on the Neva

Walking in a winter wonderland.

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December 6th 2007
This past weekend was a good weekend. It felt very mich like I would expect a winter's weekend to feel like during the time of the Tsars. I went with Maragaret to the Yusopov Palace, which took a little while to get too, because it turns out that there are to Yusopov Palaces in Peter, and the one I saw on my map and started walking to was not the right one. On the up side, the wrong one had a p ... 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