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^"Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar."             -Russian proverb
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^"The first Rome collapsed owing to its heresies, the second Rome fell victim
^to the Turks, but a new and third Rome has sprung up in the North . . . .
^A fourth there shall not be."                                           -Philotheus
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^In 1263, the Russian hero Aleksandr Nevsky (pictured) willed to his son Daniel
a backwater village on the north banks of the Moskva River.  Despite invasions
from both east and west, and the treacherous politics of Rus', the village
of Moscow rose to become the capital of a mighty state that claimed the holy
mantle of empires past.
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^Can you match the feats of the Princes of Moscow to unite Russia?
^
^This is a scenario of conquest and survival, not necessarily technology.
^The protagonists are the "Russians" of Muscovy.  In reality they took over
^just about ALL of the area in play by 1598, the death of Ivan the Terrible's
^son and end of the Riurik dynasty.
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