Poor representation leads to misunderstanding

Large man with a moustache, small child falling to his knees....turns out it was a memorial statue for all the families that were torn apart under the USSR (this information provided after some pointing, laughing and the photo)...oops!

Transiberian Part 2

August 18th 2011
Part 2: I made friends with 3 Russian girls who were teaching Russian at Khovd University. They all live in a town called Barnaul, about 4-5 hours south of Novosibirsk and when they left Khovd, I promised to visit. Sasha, the girl we’d be staying with arranged for her friends to pick us up from the train station and drive us to the bus station, where they put us on a bus to Barnaul. I have n ... 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

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