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Early history (1147–1283) The first reference to Moscow dates from 1147 as a meeting place of Sviatoslav Olgovich and Yuri Dolgorukiy. At the time it was a minor town on the western border of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. In 1156, Kniaz Yury Dolgoruky fortified the town with a timber fence and a moat.
Hace 2 días · Moscow, city, capital of Russia since the late 13th century. It is not only the political center of Russia but also the country’s most populous city and its industrial, cultural, scientific, and educational capital. Moscow has also been the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church for over 600 years.
First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to serve as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. When the Tsardom of Russia was proclaimed, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of its history.
History of Moscow. The early period. Foundation and medieval growth. The first documentary reference to Moscow is found in the early monastic chronicles under the year 1147, when on April 4 Yury Vladimirovich Dolgoruky ( see Dolgoruky family), prince of Suzdal, was host at a “great banquet” for his ally the prince of Novgorod-Seversky “in Moscow.”
La primera referencia rusa de Moscú data de 1147 con Yuri Dolgoruki; nueve años más tarde, en 1156, el príncipe Yuri Dolgoruki de Rostov ordenó la construcción de un muro de madera que rodeara la ciudad que tuvo que ser reconstruido varias veces. 1 Tras el saqueo de 1237-1238, en el que los mongoles quemaron la ciudad y mataron a sus habitante...
Evolution of the modern city. The 18th and 19th centuries. In 1703 Peter I began constructing St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland, and in 1712 he transferred the capital to his new, “Westernized,” and outward-looking city. Members of the nobility were compelled to move to St. Petersburg; many merchants and artisans also moved.
By its layout and its history of transformations (in the 14th century Dimitri Donskoi had an enceinte of logs built, then the first stone wall), the Moscow Kremlin is the prototype of a Kremlin - the citadel at the centre of Old Russian towns such as Pskov, Tula, Kazan or Smolensk.
