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Moscow school of icon painting
The Moscow school of icon painting, a school of Old Russian art of the 14th to 16th centuries, is known for Andrei Rublev and his Trinity.
Moscow Slavophile circle
The Moscow Slavophile circle (Московский славянофильский кружок) was an informal group of Russian writers and thinkers in Moscow, active from the late 1830s, led by Alexei Khomyakov and Ivan Kireyevsky.
Moscow Society of History and Russian Antiquities
The Moscow Society of History and Russian Antiquities, founded at Moscow University in 1804, was the first historical society in Russia and closed in 1929.
Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
The Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (Московский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов) was a Moscow council formed by merging the workers' and soldiers' Soviets in November 1917.
Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Московская государственная академия хореографии)
The Moscow State Academy of Choreography, known internationally as the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is the Bolshoi Theater's training school in Moscow, founded in 1773 as dance classes at the Moscow Foundling Home.
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Московский государственный институт международных отношений)
MGIMO (МГИМО) is the Russian Foreign Ministry's university for international relations, diplomacy, law, and economics. Founded in 1943–44 from Moscow State University's international faculty, it teaches 53 languages, hosts 8,000 students from 74 countries, and runs branches in Odintsovo and Tashkent.
Moscow State University (Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова)
Lomonosov Moscow State University (МГУ), founded 1755 by Empress Elizabeth, is Russia's oldest and largest classical university, with 41 faculties, the 239-meter Stalinist main building on Sparrow Hills, and the top Russian position in world rankings.
Moscow streltsy
The Moscow streltsy (Московские стрельцы) were musketeers who formed the core of the tsar's Moscow garrison from 1550 until Peter I abolished them in the early 1700s.
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis (Nord-Ost or Dubrovka siege): Chechen fighters seized the Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002, taking about 850-900 hostages; the 26 October FSB rescue using an aerosolized fentanyl-agent killed 128-129 hostages.
Moscow Time (poetry group)
Moscow Time (Московское время) was a Soviet poetry group formed in Moscow in 1974, its core members Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenzheev, Alexander Soprovsky, and Alexei Tsvetkov.
Moscow Trials
The Moscow Trials (Московские процессы) were three show trials in Moscow in 1936, 1937, and 1938, in which Stalin's opponents were convicted of treason and executed.
Moscow uprising of 1682
The Moscow uprising of 1682 (Стрелецкий бунт 1682 года) was a streltsy mutiny that occupied the Kremlin and installed Sophia as regent over tsars Ivan V and Peter.
Moscow water supply system
The Moscow water supply system, run by Mosvodokanal, delivers drinking water to Moscow from the Moskva and Volga rivers, beginning with the Mytishchi pipeline of 1804.
Moscow Zoo
Moscow Zoo (Московский зоопарк), Russia's first stationary zoo, opened 1864 by the Imperial Society for Acclimatization on Presnenskie Ponds; about 8,000 animals of 1,000+ species on 21.5 ha, with a Volokolamsk breeding center and panda Katyusha.
Moscow-Cassiopeia (Москва — Кассиопея)
Moscow-Cassiopeia (Москва — Кассиопея) is a 1973 Soviet children's science fiction film by Richard Viktorov, Gorky Studio, in which teenage cosmonauts fly the starship Zarya to Alpha Cassiopeiae; first half of the diptych with Teens in the Universe.
Moscow-Petushki
Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, is a prose poem by Venedikt Erofeev narrating a drunkard's train journey from Moscow to Petushki.
Moscow-Tver war of 1375
The Moscow-Tver war of 1375 (Московско-тверская война 1375 года) was a campaign in which Dmitry Ivanovich of Moscow besieged Tver and forced Mikhail Alexandrovich to recognize Moscow's supremacy.
Moscow–Tver rivalry for the grand-princely title
The Moscow–Tver rivalry (Борьба Москвы и Твери за великое княжение) was the contest between Moscow and Tver for the grand principality of Vladimir, decided in Moscow's favor in 1375.
Moscow–Washington hotline
The Moscow–Washington hotline, formally the Direct Communications Link (DCL), is a crisis communication link between US and Soviet leaders, created by agreement signed at Geneva in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Moscow, Idaho
Moscow, Idaho: county seat of Latah County, home of the University of Idaho (founded 1889, opened 1892), population 25,435 in 2020, twin college town of Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse.
MOSE
MOSE (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico) is a system of 78 mobile flood barriers at the Venice Lagoon's three inlets, protecting Venice from tides up to 3 meters since October 2020.
Moseley (lunar crater)
Moseley is an IAU-approved impact crater on the Moon's near side, 88.89 km across, centered at 20.95°, -90.20°. Named for British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys (1887-1915); name approved 1964. Satellite feature: Moseley C.
Moselle
Moselle (Mosel): major Rhine tributary rising at Col de Bussang in the Vosges, flowing 520 km to Koblenz; 28,000 km² basin shared by France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium; canalized international waterway.
Moselle Sud Biosphere Reserve
Moselle Sud Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère de Moselle Sud), UNESCO-designated 15 September 2021 as France's 15th biosphere reserve; 139,257 ha, 76,609 inhabitants, 138 communes on the Lorraine Vosges slopes, with the Ramsar Étang de Lindre, about 130 ponds and saline Seille headwaters.
Mosenergo
Mosenergo (Мосэнерго) is a Russian power company generating electricity and district heat for Moscow and the surrounding region, with about 12.3 GW of capacity and Gazprom as majority shareholder since 2007.
Moser spindle
The Moser spindle, or Moser graph, is a 7-vertex, 11-edge unit-distance graph requiring four colors, introduced by Leo and William Moser in 1961 as the first 4-chromatic unit-distance graph.
Moses (Babylonian exilarch)
Moses was a Babylonian exilarch, the nominal head of Babylonia's Jewish community, listed between Judah Zakkai and Isaac Iskawi II in the late 8th or early 9th century.
Moses (Michelangelo)
Michelangelo's Moses, also Mosè di Michelangelo, is a 235 cm marble statue of 1513–1515 for the Tomb of Pope Julius II, installed 1545 in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, famous for its horns from the Vulgate's cornuta.
Moses (מֹשֶׁה)
Moses (Hebrew Mosheh, Arabic Musa) is the biblical prophet and lawgiver who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and received the Torah at Mount Sinai.
Moses Abramovitz
Moses Abramovitz (1912–2000) was an American economist at Stanford University who pioneered growth accounting, coined "a measure of our ignorance," and developed the catch-up hypothesis.