Trans Train

6,000 miles across Siberia

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June 26th 2006
To me the trans-siberia train always conjured up romantic and mysterious images, but in reality it was just me and Dawn on a train - albeit a Russian train for 6 nights and 5 days in a 6ft by 5ft cabin. The whole trip was really a journey of vast extremes. Everything from the very official and gruff Russian train guard who barked things like "what is your country" and "give me your passport" who s ... read more

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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