size of the Borodino Panorama Museum building indicates the scale of the Borodino battle panorama painting

Day 3 (9 Sep) Jewish Moscow

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September 9th 2014
Our tour day started at 9am and Don and I got to the meeting point 10 minutes early! Miracles do happen. We began at the Moscow Memorial Square. This is a square of various memorials dedicated to those who died in various wars. The first memorial was dedicated to the 7 million civilians who died in WWII. In total 27 million died. The newest memorial, just one month old was the memorial to those ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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