Kostroma is 340 km to the northeast of Moscow. This is a one of the oldest russian town. It was founded by russian count Yuriy Dolgorukiy in 1152 (this person also founded Moscow in 1147). 460 years later Kostroma was a place of a birth of a last russian tzar family Romanov. There is Romanov museum right in a center of town.

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