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Last day in Moscow

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August 28th 2016
Today was catch up on history day. We went to two museums: the History of the Gulag and the Jewish museum and Centre for Tolerance. Both unmissable . And we went through some great metro stations on the way. The Gulag Museum was an unprepossessing building in the suburbs, but inside a marvel of modern museum display. Inside were interactive display cabinets relating to objects and furnishings o ... 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