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Month: December 2011

The Kremlin of Kazan, Russia

The Kremlin of Kazan, Russia

Riding the Trans-Siberian railway from east to west, you follow in the tracks of the Mongol Golden Hordes that stormed across Asia to the Ural Mountains of Western Siberia and the city of Kazan where many of them settled along the banks of the Volga River. Today, it is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, one of the largest and most beautiful Russian cities, where many of the world’s major faiths coexist in peace, as evidenced by the Kremlin…

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