Zaraysk
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Zaraysk is a town and the administrative center of Zaraysky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about 162 kilometers southeast from Moscow.
Zaraysk Kremlin
G.Quarenghi Views of Moscow and its Environs New Jerusalem 1797
Great Zasechnaya cherta
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The Zasechnaya cherta was a chain of fortification lines, created by the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia to protect it from the Crimean-Nogai Raids that ravaged the southern prov
Zaraysk
…and vernacular dialect seem closer to Ryazan than to Moscow. In the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Zaraysk was one of the fortresses forming a part of the Great Abatis Border, a fortified line of felled trees, barricades, fortresses, ditches, which were built by Russians as a protection against the hordes of the Crimean and…
M. Presnyakov. Great Abatis Border. 2010. Oil on canvas.