A kingdom and a village: a one-thousand-year history of Moscow

Moscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe's landmass, eleven time zones, and nearly one hundred and fifty million people, some thirteen million of whom live in the capital. In A Kingdom and a Village, acclaimed historian Simon Morrison offers a vividly rendered history of Russia's heart and soul, tracing its transformation from a 'big village' - the demeaning n