St Basils Cathedral

MOCKBA- Spring in the Capital.

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April 8th 2010
My first impressions of Moscow, were much better than those of St Petersburg. If St Petersburg felt like a run down Vienna, Mocow felt like a slightly asian version of London, a nice spacious mix of old and new. A jagged skyline of high rise buildings, shopping centres, monuments and churches. It was, for me, a much less opressive city, with people who weren't overly friendly by western standards ... 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