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Russia in 1994
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the land when the Viking Rurik founded Novgorod in 862 and his successor Oleg, Kiev in 882. The Rurikid dynasty that ruled the Slavs until the 16th century gave them the name "Rus" that became "Russian".
Trade and military campaigns had made Kiev dominant when the Varangian (Viking) prince Volodymir founded the Russian Orthodox Church in 988 by inviting the Byzantine monks Methodius and Cyril who crafted the Cyrillic alphabet and brought with them the Byzantine culture, values and laws that have so strongly marked the Russian people.
Uglich
When the crusades restored the Mediterranean trade routes in the 11th century trade shifted north as the merchants of Novgorod declared themselves independent of Kiev and joined the Baltic centred Hanseatic League. The 6th Rurikid ruler, Volodymir Monomakh founded Vladimir on the Volga, his son Yury founded Moscow and his grandson Andrey sacked Kiev and moved the court to Vladimir in 1169.
Uglich was founded on the Volga in 1148, a year after Moscow on the Moskva. When the Mongol hordes annihilated all the Russian principalities around 1236 Batu Khan chose Alexander Nievsky prince of Novgorod to put on the throne as Grand Prince of Vladimir to serve as intermediary and tax collector for the Golden Horde based at Saray near today's Volvograd on the lower Volga. Uglich stagnated while Moscow emerged as the horde's chief northern tribute collector. In 1320 the Metropolitan Pyotr moved from Vladimir to Moscow whose Prince Ivan I gained the title of Grand Prince of Rus in 1328 thus deciding Moscow's future as Capital. Uglich's role in history came much later when Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible by his 7th wife Maria Nagaya, was murdered in her garden in 1591.
Above is the 15th century five domed Transfiguration Cathedral. Below left, the Bell Tower and on the right, the red Church of Saint Dmitry on the Blood built in 1690 on the spot where
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