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Moscow - Day 2

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February 29th 2008
We woke up in the morning after my first evening in Moscow to find that it had snowed over night and that there was now a light dusting of new snow all about on the ground. Which was very cool - literally! We decided to spend the day retracing our steps back to Red Square to see all the things in the daylight as well as exploring some things that we hadn’t gotten to see yet. So we headed out of ... 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