Moscow first mentioned in chronicles

1147

A Russian chronicler recorded that Prince Yury Dolgoruky of Suzdal invited his ally Sviatoslav of Novgorod-Seversk to dine with him at a settlement called Moskov. It is the earliest written mention of the riverside town that would eventually become the Russian capital. The site, a minor wooden fort on the Moskva River surrounded by dense forest, gave no hint of the sprawling metropolis it would become.