About the book: 2020 / Moscow was a great city and the capital of a great power in the 16th–17th centuries. Russia of that time was winning big wars, taking long strides towards the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and thought of itself as the main stronghold of true Christianity. And Moscow saw in itself the Third Rome, the Second Jerusalem, but most of all, the special destiny of the Most Pure Mother of God on earth. The capital of the Orthodox kingdom was glorified not only by victories on the battlefield and the establishment of power in the vast expanses of Eurasia, it also developed rapidly in the cultural sphere. Ivan Fedorov and his students forever established book printing in Moscow. The capital's architects created a unique national style in architecture. It is the grandiose successes of Moscow as an intellectual center, that is, as a powerful generator of ideas, as a citadel of education, printing, and high art, that the new book by D. M. Volodikhin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov, is dedicated to..