In The City of Moscow painting, Simakov depicted the capital as the centre of the Russian Orthodox faith, where all the greatest Russian saints got all together. In the right corner, he placed figures of two horsemen, i.e. Moscow Duke Ivan Kalita and Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus Peter. It was Ivan Kalita, who managed to make an alliance with the top church hierocracy, after which, approximately since 1322, Metropolitan Peter chose Moscow as his permanent residence. Since that time, Moscow started to gain the status of the spiritual centre of Rus.

 
Their images are levitating over the conciliated Moscow panorama. Behind the red walls of the Kremlin, architectural masterpieces of various epochs are recognized, i.e. the Assumption Cathedral of the 15th century, the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great of the 16th century, the Terem Palace of the 17th century. In his works, created in 1980s, Simakov often placed images of saints into realistic landscapes, and he used this approach in paintings Leontius of Rostov, Boris and Gleb, Saint Anthony and Saint Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Saint Martyr Tryphon. In this way, the painter underscored the timeless basis of the Orthodox plots.