Moscow

Praise the Lord, I was pick-pocketed!

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December 5th 2008
No, my blog title is not a joke. This evening as I was returning from spending the afternoon with my classmates (4 from Korea, 1 from Turkey) I was pick-pocketed. I have been extremely careful when on the Metro and about town to keep this from happening. Here is what happened. We had just finished having dinner at Red Square and we decided to head back to the dorms. I had used my last Metro p ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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