Moscow, the capital of Russia, today is a large human anthill, the largest city in the country. It is indeed a historical, cultural and political center with all the necessary infrastructure, the focus of financial and transport flows. But Moscow was not always like this.
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Step 1
Founded in the 12th century by the Suzdal prince Yuri Dolgoruky, the town of Moscow for a long time remained a provincial province, given over to small appanage princes, and only by the end of the 15th century it became the center of the Moscow principality, around which those who no longer wanted to submit to the Kiev princes united their lands. Due to its convenient location at the crossroads of trade routes, Moscow was chosen as the capital, and its grand dukes began to be called sovereigns. Sleepy boyar and merchant Moscow remained the capital until the beginning of the 18th century, when Peter I left it and, together with his court, moved to the newly founded St. Petersburg. Again Muscovites became residents of the capital only in 1918, when it was decided to move the capital away from the western borders, for the safety of the government and the state.
Step 2
Against the backdrop of secular Petersburg, Moscow for a long time remained a large village, where each street, built up with merchant and landowners' mansions, buried in greenery, had its own church or monastery. Such a history of the city also determined the historical way of its indigenous inhabitants, unhurried, God-fearing, hospitable. However, the descendants of those Muscovites in today's Moscow are almost gone - they were all swept away by the wind of the October Revolution and the subsequent Civil War.
Step 3
Today's "indigenous" Muscovites are the descendants of those who began to populate the capital in the 1920s. Moscow was becoming an industrial center, it needed workers, so many people flocked here from the surrounding villages, and from all over the country, creative intelligentsia was drawn here, new and old educational institutions, scientific centers and institutes were opened here. In the 1930s, the urban stratum was formed, which began to call themselves "Muscovites", but at the same time feeling a special responsibility. These were amazing people who, along with the whole country or even half a step ahead, managed to push back the fascists and defend not only the capital, but the whole country.
Step 4
Even before the mid-90s of the last century, Moscow had that unique charm and only its inherent way and rhythm of life, which made it, albeit a large, but a cozy city inhabited by simple and benevolent people. But they, however, have already begun to be pressed by the "limiters" - who came to the city for new buildings and factories, there were not enough workers. Today, when any person who comes from anywhere can become a capital resident, there are very few real Muscovites left.
