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Irkutsk, the Decembrists and Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal

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November 12th 2009
Irkutsk! I've heard of that place somewhere before. But its not a country is it? Oh! Risk! Playing the board game Risk, way back when. It was a country or region or whatever - in Risk! Well, now I'm on a train. And going there! The open steppes of Mongolia have been morphing into gently rolling hills with more and more trees - the taiga ecosystem of Siberia is starting to pass by out the ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Lake Baikal

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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