Red Square in pictures (40 photos)

Old photographs from different periods (1880-1945), as well as prints and a little painting.




1. In the foreground a monument to Minin and Pozharsky


Note - cast off the monument May 21, 1817 in St. Petersburg, where it was made in Moscow. Commemorative inscription on the pedestal reads - "Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky
Thanks ROSSІYA. LѢTA 1818 ". Originally the monument was in the middle of Red Square, opposite the entrance to the Upper Trading Rows (on the site now GUM), but in 1931 it was considered a hindrance to the demonstrations and parades of equipment and moved to St. Basil's Cathedral.

2. The end of the 19th century


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5. 1945


6. 1880


7. 1900


8. 1950th. Turn to Lenin. Over the last 50 years in this respect nothing has changed - the same queue are only the majority there - foreigners.


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10. The procession 1910


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16. Vasnetsov. Red Square during the second half of the 17th century.


16, 5. Aleviz moat and tower of St. Nicholas in 1800, Fig. Fedor Alekseev


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18 1800th year


19 1802nd year


20 1922nd year. Visible wooden Lenin Mausoleum. Photo Arcadia Shaikhet


21 Red Square in the 1790s. Zh.Delabarta engraving after a drawing G.Gutenberga. 1795


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23. Around 1900th


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26 1830th year, according to the author of the picture.


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28. Semen Budenny on Red Square


29. Red Square before perestroika


30. The solemn service to mark the launch of the first tramvaya.nachalo 20th century.


31. Che Guevara on Red Square. 1960


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33. 1935?


34. 1922


35. Ancient Moscow


36. Until 1935


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38. Red Square during the coronation of Alexander II. Fig. Vasily Timm


39. Vasnetsov. Red Square under Ivan the Terrible


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