From St Petersburg with love… Photo 4

From St Petersburg with love…

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September 19th 2012
We left Helsinki for St Petersburg Wednesday the 12thon a Finnish VR train which took about 5 hours, during the journey the Russian border control inspected our passport/visa’s etc and after some nodding and grunting they give us our immigration cards and we were on our way (minus anymore nose bleeds lol). After arriving, we stepped out of the train station into the madness that is S ... 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