Ekzotika i Fantastika

What's their secret?

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September 12th 2005
Blinchiki for breakfast. Two hours of text analysis with Yulia this morning. She hadn't taught us before but she seems nice. I copied a Russian CD yesterday (Zemfira, a pop-rock singer who a friend from Exeter told me about) and gave copies to everyone. Her songs Beskonechnost' and Webgirl are the soundtrack of my trip so far; attractive but melancholy. Then Larissa - with the blue hair - in th ... read more

Europe » Russia » Centre » Yaroslavl

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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