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The statue of the offiicial
"founder" of Moscow, Prince Yurii
Dolgoruki, was cast for the 800 anniversary of the first mention of Moscow in
medieval Russian Chronicles. The site had been occupied by settlers for
centuries already, but the foundation of the city of Moscow is accepted from
the Ipat'yevski chronicle entry of (6655), that is 1147, when Yuri established
his outpost on the hill by the river and invited the Prince of
Novgorod-Severski, Svyatoslav Ol'govich, to meet him there. Although that is
the earliest written record mentioning Moscow, that doesn't mean the town began
then. At that time the boyar, Kuchko, had his estate here and the population
center had been occupied at least two centuries. Kuchko's brother participated
in the murder of Andrei Bogolubski, Yurii's son.
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