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Muscovy

Muscovy

1 9.9
A Russian state with its capital in Moscow between the 13th and 16th centuries
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmʌskəvi/
translation icon : Moscú
  • In the 1550s, Czar Ivan the Terrible ruled Muscovy and led campaigns to expand its territory.
  • Muscovy's frontier
  • expand Muscovy

But again, you have to see the difference between that and Muscovy, where the notion that anyone has rights is really not present at all until much, much, much later.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church became more and more closely identified with the Tsardom of Muscovy.

    Academic text (1997)

  • By the seventeenth century, one observer claimed that the conquest of Kazan was the event that made Ivan IV a tsar and Muscovy an empire.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Ukraine was an enlightened region and from us learned people went to Muscovy and what do we see now?

  • But again, you have to see the difference between that and Muscovy, where the notion that anyone has rights is really not present at all until much, much, much later.

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  • An even more pressing challenge for a conversion mission arose from the secular officials inside Muscovy.

    Academic text (2007)

  • By 1680, the security of Muscovy's frontier had been transformed entirely.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Muscovy's success further improved its defenses by extending its borders, population, and military presence in the south.

    Academic text (2007)

  • These two miracle tales transformed Kazan's image throughout Muscovy as one of the country's spiritual centers.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The Grand Prince of Muscovy ends up uniting all the very young peoples and then is able to take the fight to the steppe nomads and drive out the Golden Horde.

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  • The conquest of Kazan provided both the Metropolitan of Moscow and Ivan IV (the Terrible) an opportunity to transform the image of Muscovy into that of a victorious Orthodox power and to justify the title of its Grand Prince as a new Caesar (tsar).

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

Grand Duchy of Moscow
vsMuscovy
9.9

A Russian state from the Middle Ages with Moscow as its capital that is the beginning of modern Russia

is the same entity but expressed by a formal territorial title

Compounds

Muscovy duck
  • US
8.3

A large duck from Central and South America kept for meat and eggs

Surface Forms

Muscovy main

Etymology

Muscovy comes from an older form Moscovia, which comes from the city name Moscow and can be thought of as the 'land of Moscow'. So Muscovy was the name for the Russian state ruled from Moscow, and later it became the heart of modern Russia.