Bolshoi Theatre
Bolshoi Theatre. Theatre Square, 1.
"On the E. the Okhotni Ryad ends at the spacious Theatre Square (Театральная Площадь), one of the largest open spaces in Moscow, measuring 350 yds. in length and 175 yds. in breadth. It is adorned with flower-beds and a fountain, with figures (by Vitali) representing Music and Light and Classical Poetry. On the N. side rises the Great Imperial Theatre (Большой Театр), rebuilt by Cavos after a fire in 1854. The facade is preceded by an Ionic portico. The pediment is adorned with reliefs and surmounted by a colossal group of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun".--Baedeker 1914.
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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 
