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Zalesye. Geographical promise of Moscow.
Northeast Rostov-Suzdal had contemporary nicknames. For southwest Kyiv, it was Zelesi - the land beyond the wilds of Bryansk and beyond Voyachi, through which Vladimir Monomakh and the epic Ilya Muromets walked.
But the very border of the south-west and north-east is along the border of the modern Kaluga and Moscow regions - or along the high Chernigov bank of Protava, then along its valley, then at its confluence with the Nara.
The closest city to Nara in the northeast in the 12th century was Moscow. It belongs to Zalesye, which served as a corner and southwestern outpost. On its front, Moscow bordered Murom and Ryazan (along Kolomna), Chernigov, Smolensk (along Mozhaisk) and Novgorod (along Volokolamsk) at the same time.
A point bordering so many neighbors can turn out to be the center of a larger world. Moscow turned the geographical, almost geometric, steppe into a political success.
Presenter: Rostam Rahmatulin - writer.
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