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Moscow

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September 18th 2008
I arrived in Moscow at 8.30 Wednesday night (Russian time). Ill not go into the full details here but I had an awful time getting to the hostel. It took me 4 and a half hours. I was put on the wrong train at the airport, didn’t know where to get off (couldn see any signs let alone read them), had help from a lovely Russian couple who took me from the train to the metro and put me on the rig ... 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