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Is it by chance or not that Moscow was erected on seven hills?

Indeed, in Russia the number seven has long been considered good, happy.

Mikhail Lomonosov noted that Moscow: “…It stands on many mountains and valleys, along which the lofty and humiliated sides and buildings represent many cities, which have united into one city… If we take three mountains as one hill, which split into three, then it together with the other main ones it will make seven hills, according to which Moscow is compared with seven-hill Rome and Constantinople.”

Today it is difficult to know where these hills are located. Time and people have changed Moscow beyond recognition. Hills and burial mounds were dug down, ponds, ravines and ditches were filled up, it cut forests and groves down. Only from the old descriptions can one find out where the hills were.

“…The first hill is the Kremlin and Kitai-gorod… The second contains the Myasnitskaya and Sretensky parts… The third hill is Tverskaya, stretching from Truba to Presnya; The fourth – three mountains (Trekhgorka); Fifth – Lousy slide; Sixth – Lefortovskaya; The seventh – unnamed – on the right bank of the Moskva River, where Neskuchnoye, of which Vorobyovy Gory is a continuation…”

The safe places in Moscow are those that are located on the hills. Low-lying areas have negative energy. Once there were swamps and swamps where harmful gases accumulated. Today in these places there is a large concentration of car exhaust, industrial gas emissions, and bad ecology.