Muscovy

Muscovy (also Latin and Italian: Moscovia, French: Moscovie; spelling variants Moskovia, Muskovy; in Russian: Московия) is a historico-geographical term, used in the 16th–17th centuries in Western Europe for Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia. It may also refer to one of the following:

• The name of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, changed for Russia by Tsar Peter I in the early 18th century. The goal of this change was to establish a connection between Muscovy and medieval state of Kievan Rus', thus claiming the right of Moscow to possess all the lands of Rus'. Muscovy was officially renamed by Russian imperial decree in 1721. The ethnonym "Russian" was fixed later - only at the end of the century, when Empress Catherine II of "the highest command" Moscow ordered the people called "Russian people" and forbade them to use the title of "Muscovites".
• Moscovia Monastery
• Muscovy Company
• Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
• Muscovy glass or muscovite, a mineral
• Muscovy Levee, on the Lytle Creek, in Muscoy, San Bernardino County, California
• Muscovy lilac, a variety of the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
• Muscovy Street, in the City of London, near the Tower of London
• Moskovia Airlines
• A term for a "parallel world" Russia in Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials
• "Moscovia", a collective name for the city and its associated wilderness in the Ragnarok Online MMORPG game