Concert Music School students at the Tretyakov Conservatory

Moscow, part three of our journey through Russia

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June 11th 2012
June 11, entering Moscow I woke up this morning to a cement wall outside my stateroom window. After my shower the wall was still there and it wasn't until after my Qi Gong class that the ship began to move. I later found out that we were delayed by fog and had been stuck in a lock for over two hours. This of course moved our tour of Moscow back to 3pm but the sun was out, it was a deli ... 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