Red square, Moscow

Russia

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July 2nd 2008
RUSSIA; An overnight train from St. Petersburg had me in Moscow at sunrise. I was on Bol Moskvorstsay bridge, the perfect viewing point for the Kremlin.Surrounded by a huge garrison style red wall, every brick immaculate. In Red Square armed guards stand outside the Lenin mausoleum. Inside more guards where one can view the first leader of communism. At the rear of the mausoleum ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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