Moscovia is a historical region in Central Russia. The region was for a long period for its eastern and western neighbours a pristine and unknown place where different Russian folks and tribes lived. The development of its Russian cultures emerged from the people and their way of life in Russian forests, rivers and steppes. The name Moscovia derived from the city Moscow respectively Moskva river and was shaped and known to its neighbors through the Russian Moscovian state which emerged in the 13th century. Particularly Finno-Ugric tribes like for example the

Muromian The Volga Finns (sometimes referred to as Eastern Finns) are a historical group of indigenous peoples of Russia living in the vicinity of the Volga, who speak Uralic languages. Their modern representatives are the Mari people, the Erzya and th ...

people and Slavic tribes like the

Vyatichs The Vyatichs or more properly Vyatichi or Viatichi (russian: вя́тичи) were a native tribe of Early East Slavs who inhabited regions around the Oka, Moskva and Don rivers. The Vyatichi had for a long time no princes, but the social struct ...

lived in the area of today's

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

and the

Moskva river The Moskva (russian: река Москва, Москва-река, ''Moskva-reka'') is a river running through western Russia. It rises about west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through centra ...

. The culture of Moscovia and other Russian lands surrounding it arose from the Russian people, their lands and rivers like the

Tarusa Tarusa (russian: Тару́са), also known as Tarussa (), is a town and the administrative center of Tarussky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River, northeast of Kaluga, the administrative center of the ...

and Rusa.

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