Znamensk with lilacs

Paris-Pekin in Russia

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July 2nd 2008
Tuesday 6 May - Volgograd to Akhtubinsk, 162 km Kasha for breakfast, which I ate with some of my new pot of jam . Fortunately it was a fine sunny day with light winds, and the terrain was steppe - flat with low rolling hills, so the distance was not too bad. We crossed the huge hydroelectric dam across the Volga, very impressive. Much nicer landscape now, bushes and trees and no longe ... 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