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Moscow

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December 29th 2006
Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock! All to soon, the guard was running down the hall knocking on each cabin door, waking us for our approach to Moscow. The toilets empty directly on to the track. This kind of thing is not really all that neat, when you're in a train station, so they are closed half an hour before each station. We were woken with an hour to go, in case we had to... go. ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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