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Show j Key t Cite . On the map one --: see the gro grapl.ie why beiiir-d :-n.olv nsk's old title, "the key ai d g.no of Russia." The city is on the ivost direct and usable route to M.cow trim i.orth. i-at Poland, by way of White Rus sia. Tins ron'e a natural cor ndor, chaniu-leil in ;uut between l.o great rivers, the Dnieper, on the south, and the 1J iua. roughly parallel. Fin therniore, for either armies or utuld traders, capital-hound, capital-hound, tin- Moscow Con idor has the lidded advaota.' of being somewhat higher than the f orrouuding plains, where intersecting rivers and marshy stretches may tend to s'ow travel. |