Vladimer

Moscow

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July 20th 2005
Boarding our train at midnight tonight for St Petersburg.. our last overnight train in Russia. So have some time to kill and upload some photos. We did a tour of the KGB musuem on our first day which was really interesting.. very James Bond sort of stuff, it was quite cool, and we met an ex-chief from the KGB who was a bit of a character. It was probably one of the best tours we've done on the ... 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