{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"Prerevolutionary Moscow\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/prerevolutionary-moscow.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/prerevolutionary-moscow.html'\u003EPrerevolutionary Moscow\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EMoscow has been called the Third Rome by a clergyman who with this name compared it to Rome and Constantinople, both as the centres of big empires and as strongholds of Christianity. This boast overlooks the fact that Christianity didn\u2019t enter Russian soil through Moscow, but through Kiev, and Moscow only ’inherited’ this self- appointed role after the destruction of the first Russian empire to be, the Kievian Rus, in 1240. During the centuries of Mongolian dominion (the ’yoke’, as \u003Ca href=\"prerevolutionary-moscow.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}