Two Moscow: metaphysics of the capital

Rustam Rakhmatullin - an essayist writer, a local historian who has been studying the history of Moscow for many years - understands Moscow knowledge in a new way. The author resorts to unexpected comparisons and conclusions, leads the reader at the same time according to the visible and invisible capital.
Comparing it with Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople, as well as with St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, he sees Moscow as a miracle of manifestation of the highest plan embodied on For many centuries in the events of history, in art monuments, in urban topography, in the symbolic space of city monasteries and former suburban estates. At the time of the Moscow Grand Duchy and the Russian Kingdom, in the St. Petersburg era and in the 20th century. In the acts of Ivan Kalita and St. Metropolitan Peter, Ivan III and Ivan the Terrible, the first printer Ivan Fedorov and Prince Pozharsky, Peter I and Catherine II, Architects Bazhenov and Kazakov and many other heroes of the book