User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Common Misconceptions of History Part 2: Great Empires/@comment-4758513-20140316205542

The count of Moscow being the third Rome is dubious, as its connection to the political legacy of the actual Roman Empire is not really true, but is more of a religious legacy. The actual Roman Empire fell in 1453, with the splinter states of Morea and Trebizond surviving on later.