Romanov Cathedral

Yekaterinburg

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September 10th 2006
Ye better all read this as we are rewriting it for the second time after "Technical difficulties". We arrived in Yekaterinburg late in the evening. After a getting some dinner we took an early night to catch up on the sleep we had been denied on the train. The next day we had a city tour with a local guide Kirill. Yekaterinburg is best known as the place of murder of the last Czarist family, ... 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