Refectory

Some Like it Hot. Some Don't.

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July 27th 2011
Geo: 56.2997, 38.1166Again, we had a great breakfast at Hotel Sovietsky, this time with music provided on a piano instead of a harp. We met our guide and "sauna bus" which took us to Sergiev-Posad. Along the way Kira gave us a number of history lessons about the history of Bartolomeo, who later became St. Sergio after the miracle by which he learned to read and write because of his ... 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