River Moskva.

When in Moscow....

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December 24th 2005
If you can't have a lie-in on the first day of the holidays, in a comfortable hotel bed, on Christmas Eve, when can you? Some of us went down to breakfast but we were only ready to leave the hotel at 1. I made a table reservation at an Ethiopian restaurant for 8 o'clock, which was the most confusing phone call I have ever made. The man's accent was much stronger than mine; as I was about to ha ... 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