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St Basil's

Another day pottering around

August 9th 2013
Geo: 55.75, 37.62Thursday was the second day of the Congress and as Fletcher had recovered he headed off at 8-30 to attend. I had another day to relax and decide how much I wanted to do. I stayed at the hotel until 11-30am.A few words about the hotel. This building is one of the Stalin 7 sisters. It is really the Hotel Ukraina, one of the buildings which Stalin based on the Empire State build ... 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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