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The coat of arms of Moscow city. 1781 The coat of arms of Moscow Governorate. At first the charging horseman was interpreted as showing the figure of the ruling tsar slaying an enemy intruding into the Russian lands. This attitude was clearly expressed by the Muscovite statesman Grigory Kotoshikhin, among others.
Coat of arms of Moscovia, "Stemmatografia", 1702Moscovia was the political and geographical name of the Russian state and the Tsardom of Russia in Western sources, used with varying degrees of priority in parallel with the ethnographic name Russia (Russian: Руссия, romanized: Russiya) from the 15th to the beginning of the 18th century.
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]
In England in the 16th century, it was known both as Russia and Muscovy. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Such notable Englishmen as Giles Fletcher , author of the book Of the Russe Common Wealth (1591), and Samuel Collins , author of The Present State of Russia (1668), both of whom visited Russia, were familiar with the term Russia and used it in their works. [ 37 ]
The modern coat of arms of Moscow (adopted 2000) shows Saint George and the Dragon, based on a heraldic tradition originating in the 11th century with Yaroslav I of Kiev and adopted by the leader of Vladimir-Suzdal in the 12th century (Alexander Nevsky) and eventually by Muscovy in the 14th century (Dmitry Donskoy).
Seal of the Muscovy Company, showing the date 1555 above an escutcheon of arms: Barry wavy of six argent and azure, over all a ship of three masts in full sail towards sinister proper, sails, pennants, and ensigns of the first, each charged with a cross gules all between three bezants, a chief or, on a pale between two roses gules seeded or ...
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 ...
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