"In Moscow..."

[awelon.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone!
I'm just in the process of typing up my partner's work for a group project that we're working on in Russian, and I came across a sentence that I'm not sure of. Our prof read over our stuff today and asked us to correct our mistakes and type it up for tomorrow. My partner had written У Мосвкы.... a couple of times when she meant "Moscow has..." (eg Moscow has 49 bridges...). As far as I can remember, our prof corrected all of these to в Мосвке есть, but my partner didn't write all the corrections down and now I'm trying to remember them! In the sentence "С момент основания, у Москвы была оьень беспокойная история", would you write "с момент основания, в Москве была очень беспокойная история"?

Thank you!

Comments

[tavia-.livejournal.com]

С момента основания у Москвы была очень беспокойная история. Without comma.

[awelon.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[oryx_and_crake]

For "Moscow has 49 bridges" I'd rather say "В Москве 49 мостов". As to history, it is "у Москвы" and not "в Москве".

[awelon.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[helli-holly.livejournal.com]

С самого основания Москвы московскую историю можно назвать беспокойной.

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

s/московскую/её/

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

This one looks to me like a tautology. There is no need to specify from establishment of what the Moscow history was uneasy because it's clear that it's from the very establishment of the city. So it's either:

"С самого основания у Москвы была беспокойная история"
or
"С самого основания города история Москвы была беспокойной"
or
"С самого основания Москвы история города была беспокойной"

"Московская история" sounds to me like "Moscow story", not "history of Moscow".

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

С момента основания история Москвы была очень беспокойной.

Phrase 'У чего-нибудь была история' generally signifies using 'история' as 'story', not 'history'. And for inanimate things is better to say 'Где-то (В Москве) произошла история' if want to tell about story.

[baby-rhino.livejournal.com]

It sounds more like "с момента основания истории" to me. I'd say С момента основания Москвы история города была беспокойной, but this was suggested above.