Listen to the first part of the lecture and decide which statements 1–9 are True (T), False (F ) or Not Stated (NS). You will hear the text twice.
1. Moscow was in a good location for trading.
2. A lot of foreign merchants wrote about the riches of Muscovy.
3. Constantinople remained the centre for the Orthodox Church in the second half of
the 15thcentury.
4. In the 14thcentury, the Kremlin was surrounded by a brick wall.
5. Dmitry Donskoy got his nickname because of his victory over the Mongol-Tatars.
6. The Russian army put an end to the Tatar yoke in the Battle of Kulikovo.
7. Dmitry Donskoy founded a monastery in honor of his victory over the Horde.
8. Moscow was the place where the great Russian icon painters created their masterpieces.
9. Andrei Rublyev met Dmitry several times
