We’ve just arrived aboard the Viking Rurik, with perhaps three minutes of sleep, to visit St. Petersburg and sail through inland waterways to Moscow. In case you didn’t know (we didn’t), Rurik was a Viking nobel chieftain invited by the Slav tribes to bring a bit of law and order to this area about 1200 years ago. The Rurikid Dynasty ruled the roost for 700 years. They are why we call ancient “Rus” Russia. Seems like a solid start to us and is the best you’ll get from us when we’ve been up for over 24 hours. Stay tuned.
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