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Travelling to St.Petersburg, May 2008

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November 23rd 2008
Hello TravelBlog and anyone who would be interested in reading this. So i spent a week in Moscow and then i took a train or as we say it in Russian -poezd, all the way to St.Petersburg. Me and my grandmother departed some time in the evening and early in the morning we were already in St.Petersburg. It was May 20th and the weather in the morning was pretty cold as we got out of the train. It made ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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