Moscow

Russian Water Torture

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June 28th 2006
So often I have a picture of something in my mind, I am certain that this is how things must be. So often I am wrong. I had imagined Moscow as grey and depressing. A monolithic and grim concrete abyss where people walk around as if life has got the better of them and the police run the show. The streets would be dangerous and intimidating and the authorities would watch and question my every tur ... 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