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The English names Moscow and Muscovy, for the city, the principality, and the river, are derived from post-classical Latin Moscovia, Muscovia, and ultimately from the Old Russian fully vocalized accusative form Московь, Moskov'. [26] [27] Moscow is first mentioned under the year 1147 in the locative case (na Moskvě). [26]
Moscovia or Muscovy (Russian: Моско́вия, romanized: Moskoviya) is a historical region in Central Russia.The name derived from Moscow and the Moskva river. It was known to its neighbors through the Moscovian state that emerged in the 13th century.
Muscovy or Moscovia (Russian: Моско́вия, romanized: Moskoviya) is an alternative name for the Principality of Moscow (1263–1547) and the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721). It may also refer to: Muscovy Company, an English trading company chartered in 1555; Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) and Domestic Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata ...
The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic Schukinskaya site on the Moscow River.Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered to be a burial ground of the Fatyanovskaya culture, as well as the site of an Iron Age settlement of the Dyakovo culture, on the territory of the Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest ...
1764 – Moscow Orphanage founded. 1765 – Novodevichii Institute founded. 1765 – Maiden Field Theatre founded. 1766 – Russian Theatre founded. 1769 – Znamensky Theatre founded. 1771 Chudov Monastery re-built. [1] Plague. September: Plague Riot. Vvedenskoye Cemetery in use (approximate date). 1772 – Commercial School founded. [12]
Muscovy receives the cities of Kozelsk, Lyubutsk and Peremyshl; 1425–1453 [12] Muscovite War of Succession [13] Younger Donskoy line Vasily II Vasilyevich Dmitry II Shemyaka (1434–9) Boris of Tver (c. 1438) Mäxmüd of Kazan (1445–8) Qasim Khan (1452–3) Older Donskoy line Yury Dmitrievich (1425–34) Vasily Kosoy (1434–6) Ulugh of ...
Muscovy was then ruled by the Muscovite monarchy, starting with Ivan III (1462–1505), who expanded Muscovy, and ending with Ivan IV, who claimed the title "Tsar of Russia". In this article, Russia and Muscovy are treated as similar entities. In land area there is not much difference between Muscovy and Russia west of the Ural Mountains.
This became known (for short) as the "Muscovy Company" or Russia Company, and its members the Merchants of Muscovy or Merchants of Russia. [ 8 ] The Company sent Richard Chancellor again to the White Sea in 1555, in the Edward Bonaventura and the Philip and Mary , where he learnt of the fate of Willoughby and spent 1556 in further exploration ...