First mention of Moscow

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1147 · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia · Politics

Yuri Dolgoruky invites an ally to a future capital

Under the year 1147 the Hypatian Chronicle records Prince Yuri Dolgoruky of Suzdal inviting his ally Sviatoslav Olgovich to meet him at Moskov. It is the first chronicle mention of the future capital of Russia.

State: Principality of Rostov-Suzdal, Kievan Rus'

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Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147 — around the time Angkor Wat was being completed in Cambodia.

Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147. By then, teaching had been going on at Oxford for about half a century.

Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Alive at the time

• Saladin (aged 10)
• Hildegard of Bingen (aged 49)
• Yuri Dolgoruky (aged 48)
• Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 36)
• Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 21)
• Henry II (aged 14)
• Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 0)
• Anna Komnene (aged 64)
• Li Qingzhao (aged 63)
• Conrad III (aged 54)