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Eastern Europe Travel Guide
If you talk with anyone living in one of the countries included in this guide and refer to his or her homeland's location as Eastern European, you'll quickly be corrected. It's in central Europe, you'll be told, whether you are referring to Croatia, Romania, or sometimes even Russia. So why the semantic dispute about geography? Perhaps it's an attempt to shake off the association with persistent suspicions that Eastern Europe is still in the thrall of Soviet socialism. Or perhaps it's just the desire to be accepted without having to deal with the past's unpleasant baggage. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that this diverse, politically complicated region is coming into its own and creating a new reality.
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AttractionsChurch of the Savior on the Spilled Blood (Tserkov Spasitelya Na Krovi)
Embankment of the Griboyedov Canal
2b Naberezhnya Kanala Griboyedova St. Petersburg, Russia Description: St. Petersburg's most-photographed church, this cathedral is a mountain of blindingly... Read More
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The State Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace
Entrance to Hermitage main collection: through courtyard of Winter Palace, from Palace Sq
1 Palace Sq St. Petersburg, Russia Description: The Winter Palace would be a museum itself even if it didn't... Read More
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Alexander Nevsky Monastery and Cemetery (Lavra Aleksandra Nevskogo)
1 Naberezhnya Reki Monastirka
St. Petersburg, Russia Description: The reason most visitors come to this complex is for its two cemeteries, which hold the remains... Read More
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