The Moscow Metro

Our final blog: From Russia with love...

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May 18th 2010
Making our way as far as, and then through, the Moscow metro system was not as easy as you would think. After the ease of taking metros in post-Olympics, English friendly, Beijing and Expo crazy Shanghai, coming face to face with a wall full of Cyrillic characters, gave us quite a headache. Eventually Philippe located a Metro sign in the latin alphabet. Once there we managed to buy two tickets ... 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