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Moscow - Day 2

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October 6th 2010
Our last day in Russia..... We started our day with a tour of the Moscow Metro. No, really, a tour of the subway. Wait till you see the pictures. It actually made the list of 1000 things to see before you die. It boasts 8 million riders a day but was amazingly clean, including no graffiti that we saw, although we were told there was some at other stations. This is an extremely expansive sy ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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