[pankot]

For what it’s worth, Kiev was the Capitol of Old Russia.

[rmlew]

For what it’s worth, Kiev was the Capitol of Old Russia.
No. It was the capitol of the Kievan Rus, which was a collection of feudal cities. Most of these were ruled by members of the Rurikid dynasty. Ukraine and what would become Russia when their seperate ways after the Mongol invasion. in the 15th century, Moscow began to dominate the former Rus cities under the Mongol yoke. Knyaz (Grand Prince) Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) unified and took over areas dominated by the Golden Horde like the Khanate of Kazan. This is when Ivan the Terrible became the first Czar. Ironically, the brutal and deranged tyrant killed his healthy son Ivan Ivanovich, in a fit of paranoid rage. This left Feodor, the quiet retarded one. Czar Feodor 1 was ineffective and was the second and last of the Rurikid dynasty. The Rus is the predecessor of Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia. Kiev, not Moscow is it heart.