Palace Gates

Pushkin + Palace

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July 31st 2011
Geo: 59.6873, 30.3405This entry will be brief, because we are recounting the previous day. We got into Riga, Latvia, late last night and will update about today in the next entry. Our final day in St. Petersburg was a whirlwind. We headed out in the morning for Pushkin, a suburb and the location of Catherine's Palace. Yes, another one of those. This one was the busiest location we had ... 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