Medieval Moscow. The capital of Orthodox civilization

Moscow was a great city and the capital of the Great Power in the 16th - XVII centuries. Russia of that time won large wars, went in wide steps to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, thought itself as the main stronghold of true Christianity. And Moscow saw the third Rome, the second Jerusalem, but most of all - a special destiny of the Most Holy Theotokos on Earth. The capital of the Orthodox kingdom was glorified not only by victories on the battlefield and the establishment of power in the vast expanses of Eurasia, it developed rapidly in the field of culture. Ivan Fedorov and his students forever approved the printing in Moscow. The capital"s architects created a unique national style in architecture. It is precisely the grandiose successes of Moscow as an intellectual center, that is, as a powerful generator of ideas, as the citizens of education, printing, high art, D.M. Volodykhina - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov