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Muscovy
Muscovy (also known as the Grand Duchy of Moscow (Великое Княжество Московское), or the Grand Principality of Moscow), was a late medieval Rus' principality centered on Moscow and the predecessor state of the early modern Tsardom of Russia.
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The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but a metamorphosis of Muscovy.
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― Secret Diplomatic History of the 18th Century
― Secret Diplomatic History of the 18th Century
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Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.
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― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
