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Back in the USSR

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August 8th 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia 08-08-08: We arrived very early yesterday morning, by overnight bus from Riga, Latvia. The first Thursday of every month is free admission to the Hermitage, one of the top museums in the world, so even though we were tired, we couldn't pass up the opportunity. To say the Hermitage is a museum is a bit of an understatement. It was the Czars' palace, and is a huge and beautif ... 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