Moscow (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Moscow<br/><br/>In 1272 Prince Daniel Nevsky settled at Moscow, which from that year became a separate princedom. Thanks to its central position, and to the Wily policy Of its Princes, the population of the town rapidly increased, as also the wealth Of its Princes. For their own safety the Old Princes fortified with strong wooden walls the little triangle of high ground contained on one side  the south  by the Moscow River, and on the west and north by a small river, with marshy banks the Neglinia. This was the Kremlin, the fortress. Moscow became SO important that the Metropolitan for sook Vladimir, the Old Church capital, and moved to Moscow, where the first stone building in the town, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, was built in 1339, under the superinten dence of foreign architects, as the Russians only understood wooden buildings. In 1367 the whole of Moscow, including the wooden walls of the Kremlin, was burnt down. Prince Dmitry Donskoi then had a stone wall built round the Kremlin. This was badly constructed, and was replaced, early in the fifteenth century, by the walls now standing, which were constructed under the direction of Italian architects.

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