About the book: 2021 / Rustam Rakhmatullin, a writer-essayist, local historian, who has been studying the history of Moscow for many years, rethinks Moscow studies knowledge in a new way. The author resorts to unexpected comparisons and conclusions, leading the reader simultaneously through the visible and invisible capital. Comparing it with Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople, as well as with St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, he sees Moscow as a miracle of manifestation of the Supreme Plan, embodied over many centuries in historical events, in artistic monuments, in urban topography, in the symbolic space of city monasteries and former country estates. During the time of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Russian Tsardom, during the St. Petersburg era and in the 20th century. In the acts of Ivan Kalita and the holy Metropolitan Peter, Ivan III and Ivan the Terrible, the first printer Ivan Fedorov and Prince Pozharsky, Peter I and Catherine II, the architects Bazhenov and Kazakov and many other heroes of the book.