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  Lonely Planet's Guide to Moscow
By the end of Ivan's reign, Moscow's control stretched from Novgorod in the west to Tula in the south, towards the Urals in the east and to the Barents Sea in the north.
Moscow had been in the forefront of political change, and a thorn in the flesh of the national leaders, since the first whispers of glasnost (public frankness and accountability) in the mid-1980s.
It was the rallying of Muscovites behind Yeltsin at Moscow's 'White House', seat of the new parliament of the Russian Republic, that foiled the old-guard coup in 1991 and precipitated the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
aolsvc.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/europe/moscow/history.html   (1008 words)

  
 Links2Travel b l o g » Moscow, Russia
Moscow is the capital of Russia and the country’s largest city (http://www.moscow-city.ru/).
Moscow is situated in the center of the region on banks of the Moscow river.
From the second half of the 12th century, it as the center of the Moscow princedom, from the 14th century is was the residence of the Russian metropolitan see, аnd from the end of the 16th century – the residence of the patriarchs.
www.links2travel.com /blog/?p=257   (223 words)

  
 Duchy of Moscow Encyclopedia Article @ RussianWealth.com (Russian Wealth)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Muscovy (Moscow principality (княжество Московское) to Grand Duchy of Moscow (Великое Княжество Московское) to Russian Tsardom (Царство Русское)) is a traditional Western name for the Russian state that existed from the 14th century to the late 17th century.
The Great Princedom of Moscow, as the state is known in Russian records, was the predecessor of the Russian Empire and the successor of Kievan Rus' in its northern and eastern lands.
In 1610 that heir apparent was proclaimed tsar, and the Poles occupied Moscow.
www.russianwealth.com /encyclopedia/Duchy_of_Moscow   (4170 words)

  
 Lonely Planet
Moscow was feverishly rebuilt and the city's population swelled.
Moscow had been in the forefront of political change, and a thorn in the flesh of the national leaders, since the first whispers of glasnost (openness) in the mid-1980s.
It was the rallying of Muscovites behind Yeltsin at Moscow's 'White House', seat of the parliament of the Russian Republic, that foiled the old-guard coup in 1991 and precipitated the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/Moscow/historyandculture.aspx   (1044 words)

  
 Moscow and the Moscow region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Moscow region is one of the oldest industrial regions of Russia: the first factories appeared here in the 18th century and heavy industry and metalwork dominate.
Moscow is a large river port - the Moscow and Oka rivers connect to five seas via the Moscow canal.
Moscow is the capital of Russia and the country’s largest city (www.moscow-city.ru).
www.russiatourism.ru /eng/object.asp?id=185   (917 words)

  
 Russia - Moscow
The first mention about Moscow as a settling is related to 1147, and from this year Moscow has its origin in chronology of its history.
Moscow territorial development from the beginning was determined by the need in regular and trouble-free defense.
Moscow is located in the centre of European Russia, Russian plain in the country between the rivers Oka and Volga.
www.emeraldfitc.com /WebEmerald/eng/moscow.htm   (307 words)

  
 Muscovy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Minor Moscow Princedom was doomed to head the struggle against The Golden Horde in the middle of XIII century, then, oppose the Lithuanian threat in the Eastern Europe, overcome feudal division of Russia and became a dominant political power.
Moscow rise and its gradual transformation into the national center of integration of Russian lands cannot be explained merely by its favourable geographical position.
The Great Moscow Princedom had 430 thousand square kilometers and approximately 3 million people by the year of 1462; during the rule of Ivan III and Vasily III the territory increased 6 times, and the population - twice.
russia.rin.ru /guides_e/6632.html   (473 words)

  
 About Moscow :: Unex.ru - International Trade Exhibitions & Fairs in Russia and CIS, Trade Shows for Exporters & ...
For the purposes of improving the defence of Moscow and its inhabitants, a number of fortified structures such as Novodevichy in the south-west, Donskoy and Danilovsky in the south, Simonov and Novospassky in the south-east, and Andronnikov in the east, were built.
Moscow was attacked by the Polish-Lithuanian army in the 17th century and was conquered.
Moscow architecture reached its peak of perfection in the second half of the 18th century due to advanced Russian architects V.I. Bazhenov (Pashkov`s house), and M.F. Kazakov (the Senate building.) In the 19th century, Moscow remained an important political, goverment and business centre.
www.unex.ru /english/moscow.shtml   (856 words)

  
 Moscow_history
He disliked Moscow, where as a boy he had seen his uncle and his mother's advisers killed in a palace coup, and forced the nobility to move to St Petersburg.
Moscow was feverishly rebuilt and the city's population grew from 350,000 in the 1840s to 1.4 million in 1914.
Moscow had been in the forefront of political change, and a thorn in the flesh of the national leaders, since the first whispers of glasnost in the mid-1980s.
www.ukrainetour.com /russia/Moscow_history.htm   (757 words)

  
 Kasim Khanate (1445-1552)
Upon the foundation of this khanate, Ulug Muhammed had the opportunity to establish control in the internal conditions of Moscow princedom and to intervene immediately in case of necessities under the command of his son, Kasim Khan.
Upon this event, Kasim Khan who was charged with the protection of the status quo in Moscow enthroned Vasiliy again as the sovereign of Moscow throne in the year of 1447 and he organised military expeditions against Vasiliy's rival, Semaka in the years of 1449, 1450 and 1452.
Moscow State benefited from the military knowledge of Kasim Khanate and they tried to use this khanate as a political curtain against the Islam states.
www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0003/0003_07_01.htm   (1106 words)

  
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Moscow is one of the ancient cities in Russia.
At the beginning of the 13 century Moscow became the center of Moscow princedom.
Moscow is the centre of the land, where Russian people appeared.
center.fio.ru /som/getblob.asp?id=10011710   (149 words)

  
 Green Left - Problems in the Moscow princedom
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov then retrospectively changed the electoral regulations, so that votes to reject all the candidates were not taken into account.
In Moscow are to be found the government ministries, the head offices of major banks and other large national companies and the Russian headquarters of transnational firms.
The unwillingness of Moscow television to provide coverage to representatives of the opposition is inducing Gonchar and his supporters to take to “grassroots campaigning”, and this is acting as a further spur to radicalisation.
www.greenleft.org.au /1997/293/15745   (1287 words)

  
 Moscow Region. Moscow suburbs. Tour to Moscow. Moscow tour. Trip to Russia. Legendary tour.
Moscow region is a territory within a radius of about 50 - 150 km from Moscow, a historically developed district without any exact boundaries, broader than the Moscow area itself.
In the XIV century at the territory of the nearest Moscow suburbs there was a small Moscow princedom.
The territory of the Moscow region is large; it is much larger than the areas of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg taken together.
www.legendtour.ru /eng/russia/moscow/suburbs.shtml   (2040 words)

  
 Moscow Region
The tall Zachatievsky monastery and Vladichny Vvedensky convent - the oldest in the Moscow region - beautify a small nice provincial town of Serpukhov in the Moscow region.
The center of the monastery is the Uspensky (Dormition) cathedral (1585), which is a copy of the Uspensky cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin by forms, and in terms of the size, is somewhat larger.
Kolomna is a coeval of Moscow, a reserve of ancient architecture, religious memorials, remainders of Kremlin towers and walls, which survived in their original form.
www.un.int /russia/new/MainRoot/newrussiaen/mosregionen.htm   (2062 words)

  
 AFS-Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
One of the turning points of the establishment of a Moscow state was the reign of Ivan lll (born in 1440, died in 1507).
At the beginning of his reign Ivan was a sovereign of a small Moscow princedom, surrounded by the ancient and powerful princedoms of Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Ryazan.
From the 16th to the 18th century, a multinational Russian state was formed as the result of the Northern Territories, Siberia and the Far East annexation by Moscow princes.
www.afs.org /partners/rus/fea/hist_uk.htm   (995 words)

  
 Consolidation of The Moscow Princedom in Reign of Vasily I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Consolidation of The Moscow Princedom in Reign of Vasily I
And when The Dvina Land passed under the protection of Moscow, Vasily I broke the agreement with Novgorod and occupied Volokolamsk, Torzhok, Vologda and Bezhetsky again.
On the whole the process of territorial development of the Moscow Princedom in reign of Vasily I obtained a character and value of all-national association of lands.
russia.rin.ru /guides_e/6868.html   (511 words)

  
 Gorod.Moskva font family : MyFonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Since the 14th century Moscow had been the center of the Great Princedom of Moscow, since the second half of the 15th century it has been the capital of the uniform Russian state.
Now Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation, the largest in Russia and one of the major in the world the cultural, scientific, industrial and political center.
Moscow is rich in architectural monuments of 14 - 20 centuries.
www.myfonts.com /fonts/fontcity/gorod-moskva   (287 words)

  
 Moscow History — Official Moscow Travel Information
By the end of Ivan's reign, Moscow 's control stretched from Novgorod in the west to Tula in the south, towards the Urals in the east and to the Barents Sea in the north.
Moscow became the epicentre of the country's total reorganisation.
It was the rallying of Muscovites behind Yeltsin at Moscow 's 'White House', seat of the parliament of the Russian Republic, that foiled the old-guard coup in 1991 and precipitated the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
www.all-moscow.com /info/history.html   (1023 words)

  
 Cruises by the Volga
Moscow city Beginning from the 60-s of 20 century they say about Moscow that it is a port oà five seas.
Owing to the system of navigation canals and deepening of main waterways a through trip from the capital to the Azov, the Caspian, the Baikal and the White seas has become possible and vessels of “river-sea” class are able sails also by the very seas.
In the first half of XIV century (1364) Kostroma became a member of Moscow princedom, since that time its history inseparable from development and culture of All-Russian state.
russia-travel.ws /regions/Cruises_by_the_Volga   (2611 words)

  
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In the 13th century the Novgorod Princedom had to hold battles against Swedish and German invasions (Battle on the Neva of 1240 and the Ice Battle of 1242).
The eastern princedoms were regularly invaded by the Mongol-Tartars and for over 250 years they were under the vassal power of the Gold Orda.
In the 14th century, the Moscow Princedom became the center of a centralized state and the formation process finished in 1547 when Ivan IV Terrible was crowned as the tsar.
www.antiscammer.net /rus_history.html   (482 words)

  
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Problems in the Moscow Princedom/GL Wkly id BAA20049; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:24:48 -0400 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit from Green Left Weekly #293 10/15/97 Problems in the Moscow princedom By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW - In December, Moscow will elect its city duma.
In Moscow are to be found the government ministries, the offices of major banks and other large national companies and the Russian uarters of transnational firms.
It is already clear that Moscow politics will not remain a one-person show featuring only Yury Luzhkov.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97eeu/Problems_in_the_Moscow_Princedom-GL_Wkly   (1242 words)

  
 Our Homeland [The Voice of Russia]
Icons from across the nation were being sent out to the capital for restoration, Moscow was where people were coming in from around Russia looking for silversmiths and other craftsmen.
By the onset of the 16th century Moscow was already Russia’s commercial hub boasting a ramified trading network both in and outside this country, its central location putting it ahead even of such major border trading posts as Novgorod and Pskov.
She was brought up in the spirit of the Florentine Union and the Pope hoped that by marrying Zoe to the Moscow Grand Duke he would be able to bring Russia into the Catholic fold.
www.vor.ru /English/homeland/home_008.html   (2079 words)

  
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They have seized all decorative effect of the Moscow forms and have developed her(it) up to a degree of a whimsical pattern...
In middle of XII century in a result of civil strife between Jaroslavichami the Murom-Ryazan princedom was divided(shared) into two, in communication(connection) in what Murom had to search protection of the Vladimir princes.
In 1392 Vasily I, son Dmitry Don, has attached the Murom princedom to Moscow together with the Nizhniy Novgorod princedom, Vologda, Meschora, Tarusa and the grounds of Komi.
www.gazeta.izmuroma.ru /index1e.html   (1431 words)

  
 Ukraine Gateway
In XII-XIII centuries, as a result of wars between local princes and under the pressure of Mongol and Tartar invasion, Kievan Rus collapsed.
Part of its lands became the ownership of Moscow Princedom and the Great Princedom of Lithuania.
Moscow government in the persons of Stalin, Kaganovych, Molotov, Postyshev followed a policy, which resulted into agrarian crisis and hunger in 1932-1933 (by different sources 3 to 10 million people died, mainly in East Ukraine).
www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua /gateway/gateway.nsf/webcontent/01020000   (705 words)

  
 Trans-Siberian railway - Cities and towns - European Russia
In 1474 it definitively was included into Moscow state and from the 16 c.
From 1708 Yaroslavl was in Petersburg province, from 1719 - raion centre of the same province, from 1727 in Moscow region.
From 1777 the centre of Yaroslavl vicegerency (from 1796 province).
www.transsib.ru /Eng/city-euro.htm   (2531 words)

  
 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 eBook
Ivan was a man of great cunning and prudence, and was remarkable for indomitable perseverance, which carried him triumphantly to the conclusions of his designs in a spirit of utter indifference to the ruin or bad faith that tracked his progress.
Such a man alone, who was prepared to sacrifice the scruples of honor and the demands of justice, was fit to meet the difficulties by which the grand princedom of Moscow was surrounded.
He saw them all clearly, resolved upon the course he should take; and throughout a long reign, in which the paramount ambition of rendering Russia independent and the throne supreme was the leading feature of his policy, he pursued his plans with undeviating consistency.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10103/92.html   (474 words)

  
 From the Stone Age to XVII century - Pravda.Ru
In the renewed halls the items related to the history of the ancient Russian state and Russian princedoms, Golden Horde and Grand Moscow Princedom are exhibited.
The attention of visitors will be attracted by the piece of the oak wall of the ancient Moscow Kremlin and the chain armor of the unknown Russian soldier found on Kulikovo field (the place where Russians defeated Mongols).
Next to the ancient icons depicting Moscow Saints there is unique picture of Princes Vasily the Great and Vasily III who completed the formation of Moscow state.
english.pravda.ru /society/showbiz/12-01-2004/4563-museum-0   (554 words)

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