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Before you enter The Kremlin you could take a walk around it...
Follow the red walls and they will lead you down to the Moscow River with the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (see other tip), see The Kremlin from the bridge over the Moscow River and continue your walk through the Aleksandrovsky Garden (see other tip).
This is a really nice walk of about 2 hours.
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just wondering why its called red Square ? Is it red ? Is it a colour associated with Communism / Socialism ? somehow or rather ...my brain seems to want to connect to the Tiannenmen Square ..or at least the red walls thats impossible to ignore ...
A little geographical fact
An enormous 400 by 150 metres, Red Square lies in the heart of Moscow and on its four sides stand the Kremlin, GUM Department Store, State Historical Museum and St. Basil's Cathedral - centres of government, commerce, history and religion. The square is also home to Lenin’s tomb, a gleaming granite mausoleum to the revered founder of Socialism - a system that, like Lenin himself, is dead but not forgotten. ( dont miss a visit to Lenin's mousoleum , go earlier if you dont want to wait 2hours lol- his body requires USD 1 million to preserve every year, he needs embalmment every 2 weeks and a long dip every 8 months )
A little history
Red Square was established in the 15th Century, under the rule of Ivan III, and was originally called Trinity Square after the Trinity Cathedral, which used to stand on the site where St Basil’s stands now. Sometime later the name ‘Krasnaya Ploschad’ became popular. The word ‘krasnaya’ is ambiguous. Originally meaning beautiful in old Russian, it only came to mean red in more modern times. Commonly-held assumptions then that the ‘Red’ in Red Square referred to Communism
It has been a place for celebrating religious festivals, for public gatherings, for listening to Government announcements or Tsars’ addresses, and even watching executions (various political dissidents were publicly butchered here by Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great). The square has also been the scene of more than one display of Russian military might – the most notable of which was in 1941 when lines of Russian tanks rolled through on their way to a front-line confrontation with the Germans. Leave a Comment
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The cannon is within the walls of the Moscow Kremlin next to the Tsar bell, which is similarly massive and the largest bell in the world, but it has never been rung. The cannon was last restored in 1980 Leave a Comment
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This is an Icon of Moscow. you cant miss it it is so colourful.
It was errected in 1555-1561under the decree of Ivan The Terribleto commerate the Kazan Victory. It was known as the Polrovsky Cathedral, but was built on the burrial place of Vasily (Basil) the Blessed, revered by Muscovites, and so gradually became known as St Basils.
Today its musem's, but is definatly worth going to, it has a moorish infulence and is quite different to the other cathedrals of Moscow. Address: Red Square (at one end)
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Old Arbat is a walking street, and Novy Arbat is a big traffic street and parallel to its older brother.
Old Arbat
Is a historic street with beautiful sculptors and people selling art, 'Soviet' tat and pets!
Novy Arbat, is worth viewing for its brutal Soviet architect, like concrete book case.
The root of the name "Arbat" probably comes from the Salvonic word gorbat, meaning "hilly ground", although it is equally as possible that the word stems from the Arabic word arbad, meaning "suburb". Leave a Comment
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Novodevichy Convent is the richest of all Moscow's monasteries, and possibly the most attractive, too. In the past monasteries served as retirement homes for royal and noble women - a retirement that was often forced.
Novodevichy (New Maidens Convent) was founded by Vasily III in 1524 to commemorate the recapture of Smolensk from the Lithuanians in 1514: for this reason the convent's main cathedral is called Smolenskaya.
Many well-known people are buried within the convent's area - one of them is Raissa Gorbachova, wife of former president Michail Gorbachov. Leave a Comment Address: Novodevichii proezd, 1Directions: The convent is located in the southern part of Moscow, near the Luzhniki Sports Stadium. Metro: Sportivnaya.Website: http://eng.moscowout.ru/art/museums/588
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Smolensky Cathedral, is the main building inside the Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery complex. It was built in 1525 in the same style as the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Cremlin, and it has 5 onion-shaped domes - 4 silver and 1 gold.
The walls of the cathedral are covered in beautiful sixteenth century frescoes representing historic episodes in the struggle for the formation of a centralized Russian state. They were mainly painted during the reign of Boris Gudunov. Leave a Comment
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The GUM Department Store is something not entirely new... its architcecture reminds of the turn of the century train stations of Paris and London. And yet, it's a department store.
The GUM Department Store has had highs, lows, and then highs again. Between 1890 and 1893 Alexander Pomerantsev built it, making room for over 1200 stalls and shops.
During the communist time shops stood empty of items to buy, and full of people eager to lay their hands on them. Today it's filled with very expensive and elegant boutiques and designer stores. Leave a Comment Directions: in the red square, on the right (with saint basil behing your back)
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The House of the Unions dates from the late 18th century and is now home to a concert hall. It has achieved notoriety as being the venue for the 1938 show trial of Nikolai Bukharin, an associate of Lenin. Leave a Comment Directions: Near Manezhnaya Ploshchad.
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The Resurrection Gate - the one that you can see today - is sadly not the original one, but a replica. In the 16th century the gate was built with two passages (one for people and one for carriages) and a chapel which housed a legendary miracle-working Icon of the Mother of God of Iver.
In 1931 Stalin, however, gave orders to tear down the building - not much because it was a religious building, at least not officially, but more to ease tank access to parades on Red Square. The building that you can see now, therefore, is of recent construction. Leave a Comment Directions: next to the State Historical Museum
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