Periods, Moscow Travel Guide

Moscow Travel Guide

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Periods

13th century

Mongol invasion of Rus' (1223-1240)

Mongol victory resulting in principalities of Kievan State becoming vassals of the Mongol Golden Horde

Ryazan region

Battle of the Vozha River (1378)

The first serious victory of the Russians over a big army of the Golden Horde

Moscow

Siege of Moscow (1382)

The Siege of Moscow in 1382 was a battle between Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde, and the Muscovite forces

12th century

Vladimir II Monomakh

Reigned as Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus' from 1113 to 1125

14th century

Dmitry Donskoy

Son of Ivan II the Meek of Moscow, reigned as the Prince of Moscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 to his death

Moscow

Red Guards (1917–1919)

Volunteer formations consisting mainly of factory workers, peasants, cossacks and partially of soldiers and sailors for "protection of the Soviet power"

16th century

Feodor I of Russia

The last Rurikid Tsar of Russia, son of Ivan IV (The Terrible) and Anastasia Romanovna

USSR

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism"

USSR

USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–28)

A campaign against churches and believers by the Soviet government following the initial anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War

USSR

Communism in 20 years (1960-s)

A slogan put forth by Nikita Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961

19th century

Nicholas I of Russia

Еhe Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855

Kremlin

22nd Congress of the CPSU (1961)

The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 17 to 31 October 1961

Arbat district

Tsoi Wall

A graffiti-covered wall in Moscow, dedicated to musician Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino

metro: Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Пло́щадь Револю́ции)

Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Moscow Metro)

One of the most famous stations of the Moscow Metro, in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow

Vyatskaya Street (Вятская улица)

Svoboda Factory Club

A listed memorial avant-garde building in Moscow, Russia, designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1927 and completed in 1929

Bolshaya Nikitskaya street – Presnensky (Большая Никитская улица)

Greater Church of the Ascension

Оne of the largest parish churches in downtown Moscow

Sophiiskaya embankment (Софийская набережная)

Saint Sophia Church, Moscow

A mid-17th-century Russian Orthodox parish church standing on the Balchug Island opposite the Moscow Kremlin

Mongol invasion of Rus' (1223-1240)

Battle of the Vozha River (1378)

Siege of Moscow (1382)

Vladimir II Monomakh

Dmitry Donskoy

Red Guards (1917–1919)

Feodor I of Russia

New Economic Policy (NEP)

USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–28)

Communism in 20 years (1960-s)

Nicholas I of Russia

22nd Congress of the CPSU (1961)

Tsoi Wall

Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Moscow Metro)

Svoboda Factory Club

Greater Church of the Ascension

Saint Sophia Church, Moscow

Moscow Rizhskaya railway station

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