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TASS building (Soviet News Agency)  
   

TASS building (Soviet News Agency)

50 years later they built this just round the corner from Gorky House - what a contrast
R&R in Moscow - mile 5823 - 19 June 2012

June 19th 2012
We enter Moscow from the south but our hotel is north of the city. Any sensible person would just go round one of the ring roads but Edwin declares that we are going straight through the centre so he can get a picture of the bike in front of St Basil's Cathedral. Turns out to be a good choice. We know precisely where we are aiming for and, somehow or other, we end up riding directly there – ... read more
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Russian Flag 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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