Historic Cities
Walk Moscow in 1890
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Merchant Moscow, 1890
Moscow in 1890 is the great merchants' city of the Russian interior while the imperial court sits in Saint Petersburg. The walk moves from the river and the Kremlin into the shopping rows, Kitai‑gorod markets and the merchant mansions of Zamoskvorechye, showing horse trams, barges on the Moskva and new glass‑roofed trading arcades rising beside church domes and factory chimneys.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Moscow as it stood in 1890 (“History of Moscow”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills)
- 2. Borovitskaya Hill
- ↳ Kremlin Armoury Chamber · interior
- 3. Borovitskaya Tower Gate
- 4. Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge
- 5. Red Square (Ploshchad Krasnaya)
- 6. State Historical Museum
- ↳ Great Hall of Historical Museum · interior
- 7. Upper Trading Rows
- ↳ Glazed Trading Arcade · interior
- 8. Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed
- ↳ Painted Nave of the Cathedral · interior
- 9. Nikolskaya Street
- 10. Kitai‑Gorod Walls
- ↳ Kitai‑Gorod Customs Office · interior
- 11. Maroseyka Street
- 12. Varvarka and Ancient Churches
- ↳ Varvarka Church Refectory · interior
- 13. Zamoskvorechye Embankment
- ↳ Riverside Warehouse Counting Room · interior
- 14. Pyatnitskaya Street
- 15. Tretyakov Mansion Exterior
- ↳ Tretyakov Picture Salon · interior
- 16. Khitrov Market Square
- ↳ Traktir Tea Room with Samovars · interior
- 17. Kuznetsky Most
- ↳ Merchant's Drawing Room with Paintings · interior
- 18. Petrovka Street
- ↳ Petrovka Haberdasher's Workshop · interior
- 19. Bolshoi Theatre and Manege
- ↳ Bolshoi Auditorium Mid-Performance · interior
- 20. Tverskaya Street
- 21. Old Arbat Street
- 22. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- ↳ Nave of Christ the Saviour · interior