Moscow Metro

Nov 4th - Nov 7th '06

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November 8th 2006
Before arriving in Moscow, we should've booked a hostel over the internet, but we didn't, which in hindsight was a bad idea! Everything was written in the Russian alphabet, and nobody spoke English, and we immediately found people quite rude. Someone eventually told us where to find an internet cafe in broken English so that we could get directions to a hostel. We printed out a map of the moscow m ... 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