Church of the Sacred Blood

Sea, Sand and Ice in St Petersburg

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April 27th 2009
I arrived in St Petersburg to find all steriotypes true - My first sighting was of an industrial wasteland from a car with a racist taxi driver having just been through a very unfriendly customs experiance. The taxi driver even told me that the old Lada was the best car ever, very well suited for Russian roads, not like other cars. I have found St Petersburg to be a city of faded splendour, cl ... 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