Unreal detail in the church of spilled blood

St Petersburg, Russia - July 2010

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July 20th 2010
I was super super excited to go to St Petersburg, a city steeped in history and infamy and somewhere I have wanted to visit for as long as I can remember. Being raised in a western country, Russia has always held a certain stigma as 'that country'. I guess American anti-soviet sentiments in our media and entertainment have driven this into an almost subconscious feeling, but all it really s ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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