Moscow

The history of the Russian capital has gone deep into the centuries. It would seem that only archaeologists, and even then in a limited space, can restore its former appearance. However, acquaintance with some written monuments - chronicles, stories and tales of Russian authors, and most importantly, with various notes of foreign travelers, merchants and diplomats who recorded their impressions from Moscow during a visit to this city, shows that they contain a lot of data about the ancient Her appearance. The study of these works in a chronological sequence made it possible to restore the process of building the city, learn about the changes that occurred in it, to identify their cause and understand how a small settlement on the Borovitsky Hill turned into a large table city, which caused admiration for many foreign visits.

In this book, the information of written monuments about Moscow in the XII - XVI centuries is considered. It was at this time that it was turning it into the capital of the Russian state reviving after the Horde yoke