"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

[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.