Britain is not as far away as it seems. You will be surprised by the fact that in Moscow so many places that we used to consider "purely" Russian actually have British roots. The Kingdom of England and the Russian Kingdom established relations in 1553, when the English navigator Richard Chancellor arrived in Arkhangelsk in search of the "northeast passage". Ivan the Terrible ruled in Russia at that time, who was interested in establishing trade relations with Europe, and in 1556 presented the British...