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The Summer Palace - Peterhof

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October 21st 2017
Yesterday our alarm went off at 4.30am, in time for us to have a quick shower, and grab our suitcases to take the Hotel Shuttle to Berlin’s Tegel Airport. We chose to fly with Air Brussels, as there were limited available flight options to Saint Petersburg. This meant though, that we first had to catch a plane to Brussels, then change to a flight to Saint Petersburg. Air Brussels didn’t allow ... 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