Moscow's Kremlin rebuilt in oak by Ivan I
1339
Ivan Kalita, the Money-Bag prince who had purchased the metropolitan's favor and the khan's yarlyk, enclosed the Moscow citadel in new oak walls and filled it with stone churches. The wooden Kremlin was modest compared to what Ivan III would later build in brick, but it declared Moscow's ambition to be the heart of Russian Christendom.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.