Day #7: Moscow 20130408_191450

Day #7: Moscow

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April 8th 2013
Visited the Kremlin today. Found the experience a bit sterile - probably because there must be 1 guard for approximately every 2 visitors. The more military-type ones are equipped with whistles, forcefully blown whenever a hapless tourist puts a foot in the wrong place. They mostly look a bit bored. Spent the rest of the day planning the next stages of our trip at our hostel. The hostel has two ... 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