Locals

St.Petersburg

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April 1st 2006
We discovered that a night out in Riga is not a good idea, if you are facing a 14hour journey to St.Petersburg the following day. Especially not when you have to face dour Russian guards and the Russian border control at midnight that same evening who have no English, and throw random forms at you to fill in, which are completely in Russian. Thankfully, a very helpful Russian man who had been ... 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