Me- 1st day exploring

Week 1

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January 18th 2009
I will update this journal weekly, I think doing it daily is close to impossible and I do not even wish to attempt. I will start off by talking about my first week in Russia. I arrived on the 9th and basically I slept for two days straight. I was not at all nervous about coming to a new country and living there. I do have to say that at the airport I was surprised. First encounter with a Russian w ... 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