Historic Cities
Walk Moscow in 1680
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Muscovite Moscow, 1680
This is Moscow in the late seventeenth century, a dense capital still cradled by medieval walls and ringed by slobodas and monasteries. The walk moves from the Tver road into the Kremlin and across Kitay‑gorod's trading rows to the German Quarter and riverside quays, passing markets, sledges on packed snow and dozens of tent‑roofed churches and gilded onions crowded on the hill.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Moscow as it stood in 1680 (“History of Moscow”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Tver Road Approach
- 2. West Moskva Crossing
- 3. Spasskaya Gate
- ↳ Gate Chapel of the Saviour · interior
- 4. Hollow Field (Red Square)
- 5. Cathedral of the Intercession
- ↳ Main Pokrovsky Nave · interior
- ↳ Upper Northern Chapel · interior
- 6. Lobnoye Mesto
- 7. Ivan the Great Belltower
- ↳ Faceted Chamber · interior
- ↳ Bellsmen's Wood-lined Chamber · interior
- 8. Terem Palace Exterior
- ↳ Tsarina's Painted Bedchamber · interior
- ↳ Terem Reception Chamber · interior
- 9. Kitay‑gorod Wall and Towers
- ↳ Cloth Merchants' Covered Row · interior
- 10. Ilyinka Street
- 11. Varvarka Street
- ↳ Goldsmith's Workshop · interior
- 12. Nikolskaya Street
- 13. Gostiny Dvor
- ↳ Great Covered Arcade · interior
- 14. Fur Rows
- ↳ Fur Merchant's Counting-room · interior
- 15. Wood Market, Zaryadye
- ↳ Timber Workshop and Showroom · interior
- 16. Moskva River Quay
- 17. Yauza Embankment
- 18. German Quarter (Nemetskaya Sloboda)
- ↳ German Merchant's Counting-house · interior
- 19. Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge
- 20. Pyatnitskaya Street
- 21. Arbat Street
- 22. Sparrow Hills