Summer Palace

Church in Russia or How to yell at a Cat in Russian

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September 1st 2008
The hotel lobby bodyguard guy keeps staring at me as if I were a dirty American and this were Soviet Russia. If you stare back he just stares harder. I find the best approach is to offer him food and then he smiles. Food makes everyone smile. Normally when you take an escalator down to the subway its about a 5 minute ride one way. Rather creepy how far down you go, and how fast. Everyone s ... read more

Europe » Russia » Volga » Nizhny Novgorod

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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