Moscow Space Museum

Moscow No More

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July 30th 2008
Quite a short update this one - just pictures and my 'highlights':- - Listening to the best busker I've heard - a blind guy playing old Russian numbers outside a Metro station. He held his guitar at a slightly odd angle, constantly readjusting his fingers to find the right position. His voice carried a quality that I find difficult to describe, and others listening clearly felt the same. I stoo ... 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