Masha Student (136) 2 years ago
1147-the Foundation of Moscow Ю.Долгоруким
Standing on the Ugra river, Hungary's military actions in 1480 between the Khan of the Great Horde Akhmat and the great Prince of Moscow Ivan III, caused by refusal of Moscow (1476) to pay the orde annual tribute. Put an end to the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Moscow state became fully independent.
The beginning of the hostilities
Opened the first monument on the territory of St. Petersburg - mass grave on the site of the former fortress Nyenschantz (Канцы). The fortress was taken field Marshal B. P. Sheremetev by order of Peter I in 1703 and 16 may in the same year the fortress was laid in St. Petersburg, and Nyenskans at the behest of Peter was razed. Here, after the capitulation of the fortress on its Central square, was erected a monument to Russian soldiers and officer of Smolensk, who died in mastering the fortress. The monument represented a hill, насыпанный on the mass grave, which Peter I planted an oak tree. By order of Peter around the hill fence was installed from the trunks of the Swedish cannons taken from the walls of the fortress.