Inside the Kremlin

DAY 31 & 32

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July 15th 2008
We arrived in Moscow at around 5.30pm and were met once again by our local guide, this one was Nadia and it seemed as if she had had a long day and was a bit tired. The weather was dry and warm and we had a huge bus to transport the 14 of us to the hotel with Nadia pointing out places of interest on the way. Our hotel was one of the ones that was built for the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and had been ... 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