Book
The Asian Daughter of Europe: an ethnocultural portrait of Moscow as a historical city
Москва, 2025, 104 p.
Having a special metropolitan status and symbolic significance in the minds of Russians, Moscow has always attracted and continues to attract the attention of both domestic and foreign scientists and thinkers with its rich and unique history. The Russian capital is a long ago established center of cultural, spiritual and social traditions of the Eurasian peoples of the country, a some kind of “assembly point” and at the same time a “place of power” of a huge multinational state. A new wave of scientific interest aroused in recent years in the historical
past of the country and its ancient capital allows a comprehensive approach to the nature of its diverse succession ties not only with the Christian West, but also the Muslim East.
The brief outline of ancient and modern Moscow presented in thise book formulates a new scientific paradigm for studying the Russian capital as a historical multinational city