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Red Square

Red Square is Moscow's principal historic public square, a long rectangular cobbled plaza lying along the eastern wall of the Kremlin. It is framed by major buildings including Saint Basil's Cathedral, the State Historical Museum and the GUM trading rows, and contains urban fixtures such as Lobnoye Mesto and the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

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First raised

1500

Its prime

1894

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 1894

What Red Square looked like in its prime.

A broad rectangular plaza paved in dark gabbro-diabase cobbles, about three hundred metres long, bordered on the west by the high red-brick crenellated Kremlin wall with green-tented tower roofs and a clock tower, and on the east by a continuous arcade of pale stone trading rows capped by a long glass-and-iron roof. At the southern end, a compact cluster of polychrome onion domes rises from a low stone base; a bronze equestrian monument and a low white stone proclamation platform sit near the plaza centre.

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9 places to explore in 1894.

The record describes 9 distinct spots at Red Square, including 1 interior: upper trading rows (gum) — glass-covered galleries. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Northwest approach — State Historical Museum and Resurrection GateUpper trading rows (GUM) — glass-covered galleriesLobnoye Mesto — proclamation platformMonument to Minin and PozharskySaint Basil's Cathedral — exterior domes clusterSpasskaya Tower and Kremlin wallVasilyevsky Spusk (slope) toward the Moskva RiverMiddle of the square — full panoramaNikolskaya Street entrance toward Kitay-gorod

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