STILL Smiling

Ballet shoes and Stiletto's......

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September 3rd 2008
......It take years of practice to walk in either, these Russian lasses make it look like a walk in the park in your Sunday best slippers! We thoroughly enjoyed watching The National Ballet perform The Nutcracker, unfortunately The Bolshoi Theatre was closed for refurb so we saw them perform in a sister theatre next door; it was excellent if a little bizarre seeing Father Christmas and Xmas trees ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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