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3 days ago · The great revolt of Stenka Razin in southern Russia (1667–71) was echoed by unrest in the capital, and in 1671 Razin was executed in Moscow as a warning to the city’s inhabitants. The revolts were put down by the streltsy (hereditary militia), who in 1698, early in the reign of Peter I (the Great), themselves revolted and were suppressed ...
3 days ago · Moscow, city, capital of Russia, located in the far western part of the country. Since it was first mentioned in the chronicles of 1147, Moscow has played a vital role in Russian history. It became the capital of Muscovy ( the Grand Principality of Moscow ) in the late 13th century; hence, the people of Moscow are known as Muscovites .
3 days ago · 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. Both population growth and new building ...
1 day ago · When Peter moved the residence of the Metropolitanate from the city of Vladimir to Moscow in 1325, he bestowed the church’s great spiritual authority on the small but ambitious Moscow...
1 day ago · He moved the Russian capital from Moscow to the new model city of Saint Petersburg, which marked the birth of the imperial era, and led a cultural revolution that introduced a modern, scientific, rationalist, and Western-oriented system.
1 day ago · The fierce Battle of Borodino, located 110 kilometres (70 mi) west of Moscow, concluded as a narrow victory for the French although Napoleon was not able to beat the Russian army and Kutuzov could not stop the French.
5 days ago · Only at the last minute did Moscow restrain itself from military intervention in Poland, while Soviet troops proceeded to crush the Hungarian revolution. On 4 November 1956, as Soviet forces moved into Hungary, Khrushchev addressed a gathering of high-ranking party activists in Moscow.
