Moscow The heart of Russia is Moscow, the capital and the biggest city, with officially stated 12 million+ population. The first written account of Moscow dates back to 1147. Once a small town, it started to accumulate power and importance in early 1300s and became the center of united Russia in late 1400s. The Red Square is the central square of Moscow. During the two centuries (1712-1918), when the capital was in St. Petersburg, the coronations of the monarchs still took place in the Cathedral of the Dormition (the Assumption Cathedral) in the Moscow Kremlin The central fortified part of a Russian town was called the Kremlin. The most famous is the Moscow Kremlin, now shared by the President’s Administration and the Museum complex. The existing Kremlin walls, built by Italian architects, have been in place for 500 years now. The walls are 3.5 to 5.5 m thick and…