30 April 2015

Krymsky Most (Crimean Bridge) over the Moskva River in Moscow (Russia)


A nobleman Stephan Kuchka, while out hunting one day, was saved from a wild boar by a double-headed eagle. The eagle seized the boar and dropped its corpse on a nearby hill. According to ghe legend Kuchka founded a village on this hill that would lateer become Moscow and the two-headed bird thus becaome the symbol of the russian royal house.

Legend about the founding of Moscow