Grand staircase

St. Petersburg

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November 8th 2015
Okay, apologies to begin with - this is a very belated blog entry as it is for the final stop of the trip to Russia in 2012! That said ,added to my inability to remember what I did 2 days ago, it will consist mainly of photos. We arrived by train on the Sapsan train which took 4 and a half hours. We took the metro to Nevsky Prospekt, the famous street in St. Petersburg as our hotel was in a sid ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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