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New Years Eve

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December 31st 2006
To begin with we visited Gorky Park. Already famous, however our reason for visiting was that many of the statues and symbols of the old communist regime had been thrown here once they gave up on the great expeirment. The statue park was quite impressive, old soviet stars and statues of lenin and stalin. We paid 100 roubles each to enter the park, but the entrance we left by didn't even have a ... 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