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The lands of the North-Eastern Russia, including Moscow, Vladimir, Suzdal, were relatively unharmed during the Mongol-Tatar invasion, which crushed the Kievan Rus’ and the duchies of Southern...
- Ivan The Terrible
Before Ivan, this moniker belonged to his grandfather, Grand...
- Why the Bolsheviks never renamed Moscow
After the October Revolution, before St. Petersburg had...
- Ivan The Terrible
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.
- Moving The Capital
- Renaming Fever
- Proposals to Rename Moscow
There were several reasons for the move. First, the former Tsarist civil servants boycotted the Bolshevik government. In the civil institutions in Petrograd – the State Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Telegraph, and others, the servants either didn’t show up to work, destroyed documents, or simply locked themselves in their offic...
During his life, Lenin was firmly against the renaming of any cities, towns, streets, etc. after him. After his death, his widow Nadezhda Krupskaya repeated on numerous occasions that Lenin would have found the idea distasteful, but her voice was left unheard. On January 26th, 1924, just five days after Lenin’s death, the Second Congress of Soviets...
The first time the idea was floated, in 1927, about 200 Bolshevik civil servants filed a plea to rename Moscow to Ilyich (the patronymic of Vladimir Lenin), writing that “Lenin founded the free Russia.” Stalin refused the proposal on the grounds that having two large cities renamed after Lenin would have been too much (with Petrograd having then ju...
Moscow was the capital of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918, which then became the Soviet Union (1922 to 1991), and since 1991 has served as capital of the Russian Federation.
4 days ago · The rise of Moscow as capital. By the second half of the 15th century, especially after the annexation of Novgorod in 1478, Moscow had become the undisputed centre of a unified Russian state.
4 days ago · The Kremlin, group of buildings in the center of Moscow that serves as the official seat of the government of Russia. A centuries-old fortress with striking red brick architecture, it is one of the most recognizable government complexes in the world. Though kremlin means “citadel,” and though about.
1 day ago · Moscow - Kremlin, Red Square, History: As throughout its history, the Kremlin remains the heart of the city. It is the symbol of both Russian and (for a time) Soviet power and authority, and it has served as the official residence of the president of the Russian Federation since 1991.
