Moscow started as a monastery. The same Greek monks converting St.Olga went to convert the Northern Slav tribes she united, and the Vikings who were the people there then in the Baltics, North Western Russia.

The tribes of horselords, the tartary, were there since the dawn of man and are still there today, they united at historic points where it took great leaders rallying them, Alexander the Great, or Atilla, or Genghis. Otherwise they were nomadic clans of warlords. They didn't stay in one place around civilization expanding into bullshit narratives, they migrated across the plains and steppes along historic migratory trade routes spanning the planet.

No, you. You're stuck in a mindset that doesn't want to puzzle over it connecting the obvious dots.

You're so belligerent it's laughable. The Black Sea for example didn't populate like the Med, because the Greeks were idiots? At what point? How far East did they go? Alexander the Great is in Kazakhstan definitely Kyrgyzstan.