The story of Moscow

Most conspicuous of all the monuments of the past Moscow contains, is the great weird building familiarly known as the church of Vasili Blajenni; as monstrous and impressive is...

"Come, brothers! your heads you may bow, Before grand and most holy Moscow; Where the old altars of our land, Where shrines of saints, and ikons stand, Our inmost sanctuary."--B...

Writers in the west still ignore the history of Russia previous to the reign of Peter the Great, attributing to that monarch reforms he did not initiate, and a policy of which h...

Boris Godunov was the most powerful and sagacious of the boyards spared by Ivan the "Terrible"; he was best fitted to direct the policy of the government, and later the people l...

Strange and unaccountable to the men of the Elizabethan age were the manners and customs of the Muscovites; at this day, some of the things these early visitors minutely describ...

Russians very rightly regard the Kremlin as their Holy of Holies. All that Moscow is to Russia, the Kremlin is to Moscow. Nowhere else are so many and diverse relics grouped in...

Peter "The Great" who is credited with having created the history of Russia did little for Moscow, a town he, after his travels abroad, always despised and constantly distrusted...

Not unfrequently Russia has been treated by the powers of western Europe with less consideration for justice than they have observed in their dealings with each other, but on no...

"These are the haunts of meditation,--these The scenes where ancient bards th' inspiring breath Esctatic felt; and from the world retired, Conversed with angels and immortal for...

The first real prince of Moscow was Ivan I., surnamed "Kalita" (the Purser), who of his own right inherited Moscow from his father, Daniel, and by the grace of the Khan, was als...

To many Moscow seems so far distant, and Russia so unknown, that a few hints to intending travellers may be welcome. In the first place as to the best season for the journey; no...

Moscow still bears witness to the thoroughness of English handicraft just as it shows the unmistakable impress of the French heel. When the discovery of the new world by Columbu...

The mediæval pilgrim to Moscow, getting his first glimpse of the Holy City from Salutation Hill, saw before him much the same sight as the tourist of to-day may look upon from t...

Vasili III. succeeded his father and reigned in Moscow for nearly thirty years. From the historical point of view, he is unfortunate, as he followed a sovereign recognised as "G...

It is generally believed that the word Moscow is of Finnish origin; in an old dialect _kva_ means water, the exact significance of _Mos_ is undecided, probably Moskva implies "t...