Two Moscows: the metaphysics of the capital

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Rustam Rakhmatullin, an essayist and local historian who has been studying the history of Moscow for many years, reinterprets Moscow history in a new way. The author resorts to unexpected comparisons and conclusions, leads the reader through the visible and invisible capital at the same time. Comparing it with Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople, as well as with St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, he sees Moscow as a miracle of the manifestation of the Higher Plan, embodied over many centuries in the events of history, in artistic monuments, in urban topography, in the symbolic space of city monasteries and former country estates. During the times of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Russian kingdom, in the Petersburg era and in the XNUMXth century. In the deeds of Ivan Kalita and the holy Metropolitan Peter, Ivan III and Ivan the Terrible, the first printer Ivan Fedorov and Prince Pozharsky, Peter I and Catherine II, the architects Bazhenov and Kazakov and many other heroes of the book.

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Publication language: Russian

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