Album Moscow

“He who was in Moscow knows Russia,” wrote the great Russian historian N.M. Karamzin. Since time immemorial, gold -headed Moscow was perceived by Russian people as the heart of Russia, the focus of the Russian spirit, a symbol of the Russian statehood. The date of the founding of Moscow is considered to be the first chronicle mention of it on April 4, 1147, when the Suzdal prince Yuri Dolgoruky gave a feast in his estate estate in honor of the Seversky Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich, to which he called him with the words, brother, to me, in Muscovites, in Muscovites. . In 1328, the Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita received from the Tatar khan Uzbek Babelk for a great reign, and from that moment the history of Moscow began as a Russian capital. By the end of the 15th century, Moscow was a political, spiritual and administrative center of Rus", a stronghold of state and spiritual power. This continued until the beginning of the 18th century, when in 1703 Peter I laid on the shores of the Gulf of Finland the new capital-St. Petersburg. Deprived of the metropolitan status, Moscow, however, did not lose its spiritual, economic and cultural significance. In 1918, the latest period of the history of the city began: Moscow became the capital of a new, Soviet state. Today Moscow is the capital of a huge, rich in its historical experience and traditions of the Eurasian Power, the Russian Federation, one of the largest megacities, the fifth among the capitals of the world in terms of population. In this illustrated album, readers will pass along Moscow streets, squares and lanes, see the preserved ancient monuments and architectural structures of Moscow, and also learn about historical events and interesting facts related to them