Autumn Colours

Train 56 - Moscow to St Petersburg

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October 20th 2012
It was like a scene from the battle of Waterloo in compartment 12 - 16 on train 56 due to depart Moscow at 2040hrs. I was first to arrive at the station after an uneventful journey and made my way to my cabin on carriage number three. Seated on the bottom bunk was a gloomy looking Russian man in his late fifties holding his head between his hands. The Aussie sisters soon arrived and we began th ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest

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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