Anyone else ever get overwhelmed by just how must history there is to read? I'm visiting Moscow next year and I want to read a lot about Russian history before I go. Should I just start at the last days of the Tsars? Or should I just read about Moscow itself?
Read about the principalities and forming of Russia if you haven't done that already.
>>3020968
Yes. I dunno. I don't care.
If you are planning to visit the museums (there are good ones here and there), if could be helpful to learn about different periods (even if briefly). Some knowledge of Soviet period can also help to understand stations. Most of the other things in the Moscow worthy of note are Orthodox churches and obviously Kremlin.
>>3020968
No reason to read pre-1550 memes.
>>3020968
If you want to see the glory days of the Russian empire you should go to St. Petersburg, not shitty Moscow. Moscow is way too "modern" and I don't mean that in a good way.
Under the Tatar's yoke.
>>3023117
The modern one, I mean (Under Lenin).