Day #5: Moscow 20130406_092050

Day #5: Moscow

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April 7th 2013
I had envisaged (and, in the past, experienced) border guards to be severe, authoritative, suspicious and humourless. But I figured that it comes with the job, anyway the UK guards have the same reputation, and border guards are just one of those trials that any traveller has to face. I had especially dreaded the Russian border guards, cynically imagining they might be particularly hostile, an opi ... 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