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An internal garden.  
   

An internal garden.

During the war this was converted to grow vegetables.
13th November 2014: St Petersburg

November 14th 2014
Today we had breakfast at a new cafe on the way to the Hermitage so as not to waste time back tracking. We joined the queue and waited in the chilly wind that was circling the Hermitage courtyard. School children and students gain free entry and many groups of small children were ushered through to waiting tour guides who gave talks geared to their understanding and needs. The Hermitage is the ... read more
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Russian Flag 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
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