Moscow was first mentioned in historical records in 1147. In this year Yuri Dolgorukiy, the son of the Kievan monarch Vladimir Monomakh, is recorded as throwing a feast at his hunting lodge overlooking the confluence of the Moskva and Neglina Rivers. Moscow was a village atop Borovitsky Hill, named after the pine trees that covered it.
In 1156, Yuri Dolgorukiy dedcided to erect a wooden wall around Moscow, and is thereby usually considered to be the founder of the city.
But, although he is usually credited with this act, he died in Kiev in 1157 and the task of actually building the “small wooden town” he had envisioned on Borovitsky Hill appears to have fallen primarily to his son Andrei Bogolyubsky, prince of Vladimir.
