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It didn’t take long for me to remember that I really didn’t like sightseeing. I got lost in the Russian Metro, the Moscow subway. At every subway station, the stations were huge; everything is super-sized in Russia. Russia is big, three times the size of the U.S. and eight time zones wide. It took 10 hours to fly across the country, not counting the stop-over in Novosibersk -- literally the middle of nowhere.

     The ceilings of the subway stations were 20-30 meters high. There were murals on the walls with figures and figurines the size of three people, all of whom were engaged in various actions: battles against Germany, Poland and other ancient foes; invasions of countries; rebuilding of walls and harvesting fields and such. The murals would have been more pleasing had they not been so dirty, and more educational had I been more learned. Each station had a different story to tell from a different time period about a different event in Russia’s 800 year old history. What a trip it was to just visit these stations! I regretted my ignorance deeply. I also couldn’t find Moscow station.