Moscow in History

Historical Events

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• 1380-09-08 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
• 1408-12-05 Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow
• 1448-12-05 Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication
• 1472-06-24 Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
• 1478-01-18 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
• 1547-01-16 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow
• 1547-06-21 Great fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed
• 1552-10-29 Tsar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
• 1589-01-26 Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
• 1612-11-01 (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1613-02-21 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov
• 1619-06-24 Tsar Michail's father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
• 1642-03-27 The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
• 1648-06-10 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
• 1649-06-01 Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
• 1665-05-05 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow

• 1699-02-04 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
• 1708-09-11 Great Northern war: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war

• 1752-06-03 Moscow houses and churches destroyed by fire
• 1752-06-06 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
• 1755-01-25 Moscow University is established by Elizabeth of Russia and founded by Mikhail Lomonosov on Tatiana Day
• 1755-04-26 1st Russian university opens in Moscow

• 1812-09-15 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
• 1812-09-18 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
• 1812-10-19 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow
• 1812-10-24 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
• 1812-11-17 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
• 1854-01-25 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play "Bednost ne Porok" premieres in Moscow
• 1859-11-16 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza" premieres in Moscow
• 1862-07-01 The Russian State Library is founded in Moscow

• 1877-03-04 Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow
• 1878-11-10 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa" premieres in Moscow
• 1879-03-29 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow

• 1882-08-20 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
• 1883-05-27 Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
• 1888-03-20 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.
• 1891-04-23 Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia
• 1892-10-08 Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow

• 1904-01-17 Anton Chekhov's play "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
• 1904-02-06 Japan notifies Russia that in view of Russia's delaying tactics and provocative military action, Japan is ending negotiations and recalling its members from Moscow
• 1905-12-22 Arrest of St Petersburg Soviet members leads to an uprising of Moscow workers and fighting in the street

• 1914-12-15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
• 1918-03-11 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

• 1921-03-16 Britain signs a trade agreement with the USSR and sends a trade mission to Moscow: this goes against the US, who in the same month refused to sign a trade agreement
• 1922-05-21 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
• 1922-09-17 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
• 1922-12-30 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
• 1923-07-06 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1924-01-27 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
• 1924-10-12 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
• 1925-12-21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
• 1927-01-09 Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11 premieres in Moscow
• 1927-12-04 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
• 1928-09-28 Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga" premieres in Moscow
• 1929-02-13 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop" premieres in Moscow
• 1930-04-21 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow
• 1933-05-24 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes premieres in Moscow
• 1935-04-28 Moscow underground railway opens (81 km long)
• 1935-05-15 The Moscow Metro is opened to public
• 1936-05-02 Sergei Prokofiev's musical "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
• 1936-08-19 Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
• 1937-07-12 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto, California
• 1940-03-12 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
• 1941-09-30 German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins
• 1941-10-01 D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
• 1941-10-02 Germans launch attack on Moscow
• 1941-10-12 Soviet government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis forces close in on Moscow
• 1941-10-16 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
• 1941-10-25 Germany attacks Moscow
• 1941-11-12 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
• 1941-11-23 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
• 1941-12-05 Soviet anti-offensive in Moscow drives out Nazi army

• 1942-08-16 British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
• 1942-08-26 Soviet counter offensive begins in Moscow
• 1943-10-01 Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
• 1943-10-19 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
• 1943-11-03 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
• 1944-10-19 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
• 1944-12-02 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
• 1945-01-13 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
• 1945-02-07 London, Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
• 1945-06-24 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place
• 1948-07-08 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow

• 1949-07-29 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin
• 1952-10-05 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
• 1953-01-12 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow

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Famous Birthdays

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• 1350-10-12 Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscow (1359-89), born in Moscow (d. 1389)

• 1479-03-26 Vasili III of Russia, Great Prince of Moscow (1505-33), son of Ivan III (d. 1533)
• 1629-03-09 Tsar Alexis I of Russia [Aleksey Mikhaylovich], Tsar of Russia (1645-76), born in Moscow (d. 1676)

• 1727-11-01 Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
• 1749-08-31 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), born in Moscow (1802)
• 1782-12-26 Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
• 1784-07-27 Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1839)
• 1799-06-06 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin), born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1837)
• 1804-05-01 Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov, Russian poet, born in Moscow (d. 1860) [NS 13/05]
• 1806-04-03 Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher, born in Moscow (d. 1856)
• 1813-06-18 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1887)

• 1823-04-12 Aleksandr Ostrovsky [Alexander Ostrovsky], Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers), born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1886)
• 1830-05-24 Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1897)
• 1832-12-27 Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art, born in Moscow (d. 1897)
• 1861-04-27 Georgy Catoire, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1926)
• 1863-10-09 Alexander Siloti, Russian pianist and composer, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (d. 1945)
• 1864-10-25 Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1956)
• 1866-02-28 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philosopher, playwright and poet, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1949)
• 1866-12-04 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian-born German, French abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration), born in Moscow (d. 1944)
• 1872-01-06 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1915)
• 1872-03-08 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)
• 1880-01-05 Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (Skazi), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1951)
• 1880-10-26 Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1934)
• 1882-01-22 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1956)
• 1883-02-01 Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Armenian-Russian theatrical director of the Moscow Art Theatre (Vakhtangov Theatre), born in Vladikavkaz, Russia (d. 1922)
• 1886-04-05 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1955)
• 1888-10-09 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1938)
• 1889-04-24 Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, born in Ivanovskoe, Moscow (d. 1924)
• 1889-12-24 Vladimir Sokoloff, Russian actor (Road to Morocco), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1962)

• 1892-10-09 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (The Train of Life), born in Moscow (d. 1941)
• 1893-08-19 Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1974)
• 1896-05-07 Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (topology), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1982)
• 1896-09-25 Elsa Triolet [Ella Kagan], Russian-French writer and Resistance fighter, born in Moscow (d. 1970)
• 1896-10-11 Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1982)
• 1899-05-31 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer, born in Moscow (d. 1994)
• 1899-06-04 Leo Spies, Russian-born German composer, born in Moscow (d. 1965)
• 1899-12-06 Nikolai Batalov, Russian actor (Tretya meshchanskaya, Mother), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1937)
• 1900-03-21 Eugenie Leontovitch, Russian actor (Homicidal, The Rains of Ranchipur), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1993)
• 1901-08-15 Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (group theory), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1975)
• 1904-02-16 George F Kennan, US ambassador (to Moscow), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• 1906-02-16 Vera Menchik, Russian 1st official women's world chess champion (1927), born in Moscow (d. 1944)
• 1906-09-24 Victor Wong, American actor (Mission to Moscow, War Correspondent, King Kong), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1972)
• 1908-09-30 David Oistrakh, Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
• 1911-01-06 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, Soviet film actor (Telegram, Town People), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1994)
• 1912-03-28 Marina Raskova, Russian navigator, born in Moscow (d. 1943)
• 1913-03-13 Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet writer and poet, born in Moscow (d. 2009) [NS]
• 1913-11-30 John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), born in Moscow, Idaho
• 1914-03-06 Kirill P Kondrashin, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1916-03-25 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1995)
• 1917-06-20 Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (Lalka, Znachor, Niedaleko Warszawy), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2006)
• 1919-01-27 Nina Milkina, Russian British pianist, born in Moscow (d. 2006)
• 1920-06-15 Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (Burnt by the Sun), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2008)

• 1922-05-06 Vladimir Etush, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR, born in Moscow, RSFSR
• 1923-02-15 Yelena Bonner, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov, born in Moscow, Russia
• 1924-12-06 Sergey Yablonsky, Soviet and Russian mathematician and one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics (d. 1998), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1925-10-08 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, Russian writer and critic, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1997)
• 1925-11-20 Maya Plisetskaya, Rusiian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet), born in Moscow
• 1926-02-28 Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin and author (My Life), born in Moscow (d. 2011)
• 1927-03-16 Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1927-06-12 Timir Pinegin, Russian sailor (Olympic gold 1960), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2013)
• 1927-08-08 Yuri Kasakow, Russian writer, born in Moscow (d. 1982)
• 1928-06-21 Valentin Gavriyilovich Yershov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, Russia
• 1928-06-25 Alexei Abrikosov, Russian-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 2003), born in Moscow (d. 2017)
• 1928-07-30 Valentin Muratov, Russian gymnast (4 gold, 1 silver medals 1952, 1956 Olympics), born Moscow, Russia (d. 2006)
• 1928-09-06 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor (Siberian Fantasy), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2002)
• 1930-04-25 Paul Mazursky, American writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson), born in Brooklyn, New York, (d. 2014)
• 1930-07-31 Oleg Popov, Russian clown and circus artist, born in Vyrubovo, Moscow (d. 2016)
• 1931-04-12 Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter, born in Moscow (d. 1995)
• 1931-04-25 Felix Berezin, Russian physicist and mathematician (Berezin integral), born in Moscow (d. 1980)
• 1931-05-04 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (USSR State Radio), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1932-12-16 Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, composer (Humpback Horse), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1933-09-18 Valentina Ponomaryova, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 6 backup), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1934-03-04 Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident, born in Moscow
• 1935-08-17 Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), born in Saratov, Russian SFSR (d. 2018)
• 1935-11-23 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1936-09-21 Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
• 1937-04-10 Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (The String, Fever), born in Moscow (d. 2010)
• 1937-09-26 Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician and Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1991), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2003)
• 1939-04-03 Vitaliy Davidov, Soviet ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1964, 68, 72), born in Moscow
• 1941-07-19 Natalya Bessmertnova, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1941-11-15 Daniel Manus Pinkwater, American sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
• 1943-04-27 Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), born in Moscow (d. 1996)
• 1943-05-04 Mihail Chemiakin, Russian painter, born in Moscow
• 1944-02-15 Aleksandr Serebrov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17), born in Moscow, USSR (d. 2013)
• 1945-03-26 Mikhail Voronin, Russian and Soviet gymnast (1968 Olympics: 7 medals including 2 gold, 1972 Olympics: 2 silver medals), born in Moscow (d. 2004)
• 1950-10-01 Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, USSR (d. 2015)
• 1952-04-20 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, Russia
• 1953-10-30 Alexander Fedorovich Poleshchuk, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-16), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1956-03-14 Alexey Pajitnov, Russian video game designer (Tetris), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
• 1957-03-30 Elena V Kondakova, cosmonaut (STS 84), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1957-06-29 Maria Conchita Alonso, Cuba, actress (Moscow on the Hudson)
• 1958-04-20 Viacheslav Fetisov, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Detroit), born in Moscow, Russia
• 1958-04-24 Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer, born in Moscow
• 1960-02-13 Artur Yusupov, Russian chess player, born in Moscow, Russia

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Famous Deaths

• 1303-03-04 Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
• 1340-03-31 Ivan I of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1288)
• 1359-11-13 Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, dies
• 1406-09-16 Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
• 1462-03-27 Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)

• 1533-12-03 Vasili III of Russia, Great Prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
• 1569-12-23 St Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
• 1633-10-01 Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
• 1671-06-16 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
• 1812-11-11 Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
• 1905-02-17 Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
• 1918-07-06 Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
• 1922-05-29 Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Armenian-Russian theatrical director of the Moscow Art Theatre (Vakhtangov Theatre), dies of cancer at 39
• 1955-05-03 Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
• 2015-02-27 Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, dies at 55, shot four times in Moscow
• 2018-03-12 Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), dies at 82

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