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I feel compelled to explain the pictures on this page to anyone
visiting that has not experienced this before ... I have a feeling this is the "real" European Russia. A land where history started
in 17?? and to flowed until October ?, 1907, when it stopped until the invasion by Nazi Germany, which when turned back, stayed on
hold until Michael Gorbachev put things back on track. Hey I'm an American and that is the message I got loudly and clearly.
This church's origins go back to the Romanovs, includes the horrors of the Great War, the insult of Soviet-style nationalism, and
has now been returned it seems to its former glory and glorious it is. I've no use for it from a religious standpoint but it does
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