Kremlin - bell tower

Moscow - Day 1

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September 26th 2010
We arrived in Moscow after lunch and got a quick city tour on the bus. In both St. Petersburg and Moscow, our ship was docked about 30 minutes outside town so it took a while just to get into the city. We drove by the first McDonald's opened in Russia then stopped in a park to take pictures of a convent built by Ivan the Terrible and where Boris Yeltzin is buried. Like a few other religious buil ... 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