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Moscow / Москва

  

According to the ancient legend the settlements located within the

current Moscow, were owned by erstwhile prosperous boyar Stepan

Kuchko. Prince Yuri Dolgoruky when traveling from Kief to Vladimir

to meet his son Andrey passed along the estate of Kuchko who faced

the prince in an arrogant and unfriendly way. The grand prince

ordered to execute the disrespectful boyar and on his lands founded

a wooden city and called it Moskva-grad.

First Moscow is mentioned on the pages of Ipatievskaya manuscript

in 1147 when Suzdal prince Yuri Dolgoruky met there his ally prince

Sviatoslav Olgovich of Novgorod-Seversky principality. Sviatoslav

was in the Smolensk land when the envoys of Yuri Dolgoruky arrived

Saying: "...Welcome brother to Moscow".

More than eight centuries passed ever since. Moscow was under

construction, suffered fires, rebuilt again, extended... For several

occasions the enemies desolated and destroyed Moscow, but it

revived out of the ruins and ashes becoming more beautiful and

magnificent.

At all times Moscow was deservedly considered to be one of the

world's beautiful cities...