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Day #11: St Petersburg

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April 12th 2013
More like a half-day in St Petersburg, by the time our overnight train had arrived, and we'd found our hostel and recovered from the overnight journey. We had hoped to take a boat tour, but whilst the river was flowing, the canals are still frozen over. We weren't keen to commit to heavy-duty sightseeing by that point, so walked almost the full length of Nevsky Prospect as a way of g ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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