Soviet period hotel

12th November 2014: St Petersburg

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November 14th 2014
Another 9am start, breakfast at Zoom Zoom, and we made our way to the underground railway. I've never travelled so deep on an escalator, the ride taking a good 5 minutes. Apparently these subways are designed to double as nuclear shelters in case of an attack. Our destination was the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, the most revered Greek Orthodox Church in Russia. As you enter you pass the cemetery ... 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