Great Kremlin Palace

Grand Kremlin Palace. Built in 1837-1849 as the Tsar's Moscow residence. It housed the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. "Great Kremlin Palace (Большой Кремлевский Дворец) ... This handsome edifice, 395 ft. long and 92 ft. in height (exclusive of the dome), was erected from the designs of Thon in 1838-49, at a cost of 12,000,000 rb. The main building consists of two stories, the upper of which has two rows of windows. ... The palace stands upon the same spot on which the old wooden and stone palaces of the Tzars stood previous to 1737".--Baedeker 1914. EE1975078

Moscow

July 24th 1975
An Aeroflot flight brought us from Leningrad to Moscow. We stayed at an Intourist hotel. Sightseeing in Moscow focused on Red Square and the Kremlin. I'd always waned to see St. Basil's Cathedral since reading about it in a vintage National Geographic magazine. There was also a visit to the famous GUM (Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyy Magazin) store off Red Square. GUM was described in the West ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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