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                <title>Singing Monks</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[One good touristy thing to do is to try and see/hear the choir of monks who give performances in the Tranfiguration Cathedral in the Kremlin. Their singing is absolutely beautiful and may well leave you slightly dewey-eyed.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Assumption Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is probably the most comfortable place to stay in Uglich and, like most of the main attractions, is close to the Kremlin. The hotel also has a small cafe.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Chaika watches</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Though the factory is now closed, you’ll still find ex-workers behind little stalls near to the Kremlin who must have secreted a good deal of the stock about their persons before they became redundant. Apparently they assemble the watches at home and now sell them at still reasonable prices, ladies watches being a good deal more prevalent than gents. I bought one of these in 2000 and it’s still going strong. The name Chaika means ‘seagull’ in Russian and was adopted after being used by the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, as her call-sign.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Church of St Dmitry on the Blood</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is a typical ostentatiously domed Russian church, but one rich with history. It was here that the 10-year-old Dmitry, son of Ivan the Terrible had his throat cut, thus giving the church its colourful name. It has some beautiful frescoes inside and lies at the heart of a small Kremlin complex on the banks of the Volga river.]]></description>
                
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