View from behind Cathedral

Day #19: Vladimir

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April 20th 2013
The day started dramatically, with startled shouting leading us to look outside our hotel window to see an old woman had fallen out of a bus directly below us and hit the back of her head on the pavement. A concerned crowd of passengers stopped to see her to her feet and she walked away, but the bus driver just drove off - health and safety is not really a thing in Russia. The rest of the day w ... 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