Welcome Dinner

Sailing through rural Russia

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September 23rd 2010
We left St. Petersburg and set sail southeast. Our first stop on 9/21 is a recreated village called Mandrogi. Wooden houses act as craftsman workshops for traditional artwork and there is a Vodka Museum with 2800 types of vodka, although your ticket only allows you to taste test 4. The cranberry and snowberry flavors were my favorites. The next day, 9/22, we stopped at the island of Kizhi. ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest

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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