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Grand Novgorod

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September 22nd 2013
A McDonalds breakfast and a green tea in the warm room is a good way to start the morning in some cases, when you arrive rather early and the excursion bus has not yet arrived. If you are served by a young fat lady you perhaps will think that a fast-food restaurant is not the best place for any overweight person even to approach. But first we have to return back to the autumn of 2009. Back ... 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