The next issue of hidden europe, due out on Friday 15 March, will explore the unhappy fate of the first great railway in the Russian Empire and celebrate the restoration of a fine cross-border canal. Our Message in a Bottle column will come from a small Croatian island. We shall also report on Basque seafarers who ventured to Newfoundland and Labrador in the 16th century. Also in hidden europe 57, we’ll unpack the oddball history of the Old Believers who resisted Patriarch Nikon’s liturgical reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church and fled into exile.

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