Celebration Scenes From Moscow’s Massive, 2-day, City-Wide Founding Day Holiday
Moscow just celebrated 872 years since its first mention in historical records (AD 1147). Back then, the city was little more than a small settlement on the Moscow River, which was later fortified. Alexander Nevsky considered it the least valuable of his possessions. But through the centuries of Mongol dominance in the South, Moscow’s power and influence grew, having the advantage of being–for the most part–beyond the range of Tatar raids.
Celebration Scenes From Moscow’s Massive, 2-day, City-Wide Founding Day Holiday
Source: RI