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Exploring Novgorod!

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November 3rd 2017
It took many weeks, but I have finally made it to Novgorod, perhaps one of the greatest Russian cities to exist, all the way from my home near Constantinople. I am a merchant by trade and I know my ways around the various routes, so it wasn’t that difficult of a journey. The only problem is, I wish I brought more warm clothes to withstand these Kievan temperatures. This problem was shortly solve ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Veliky Novgorod

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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