The Bright Moscow–3

After the bright luminous park Zaryadye, I moved to the equally bright Red Square.

Red Square is the main square of Moscow, located between the Moscow Kremlin (to the west) and Kitay-Gorod (to the east). It goes to the bank of the Moscow River through the gentle Vasilievsky Descent.

On Red Square, there is Lobnoe Mesto, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky, the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, a necropolis near the Kremlin wall.

From ancient times, the square served as a place of bargaining, where many centuries in a row were built temporary and permanent trading rows.

The area is paved with paving stones.

Total length - 330 meters, width - 75 meters, area - 24,750 m².

In Soviet times, military parades and demonstrations took place on the square, after the collapse of the USSR, it began to be used for public events and concerts.

Red Square became one of the main platforms for the revolutionary events of 1917: it launched shelling of the Kremlin. Later, the leader of the coup Vladimir Lenin addressed the people with speeches on it.

In the northern part of the square are the Historical Museum and Kazan Cathedral, in the southern - Pokrovsky Cathedral. The architectural ensemble is under the protection of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

The version is widespread that the adjective "red" was used in the meaning "beautiful". However, in reality, the retail space in that era did not yet have any expressive architectural appearance. There is also a hypothesis that the name “red” was appropriated by direct decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in honor of the front porch of his palace

Nikolskaya Street, Ilyinka and Varvarka depart east of Red Square. Along the western side of the square is the Moscow Kremlin, along the eastern - Upper Trading Rows and Middle Trading Rows.

Manezhnaya Square (in 1967-1990 - the area of ​​the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution) - one of the largest squares in the center of Moscow, located next to the Kremlin and the Alexander Garden.

Okhotny Ryad Street is a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. It runs from Manezhnaya Square to Theater Square, lies between Georgievsky Lane and Nikolskaya Street parallel to them.

Alexander Garden - a park in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, located along the western Kremlin wall, stretching from Revolution Square to the Kremlin Embankment. Located near Manezhnaya street.

Kremlin stars - the pinnacles of the towers of the Moscow Kremlin in the form of five-pointed stars, made of ruby ​​glass and installed instead of the coat of arms of the Russian Empire in the 1930s on the five towers of the Moscow Kremlin - Borovitskaya, Troitskaya, Spasskaya, Nikolskaya and Vodovzvodnaya.