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This Moscow building is so precious to all Russians that many of them carry its image with them every day.
Two glassy constructions in front of the building. Advertising posters on any of them
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Of course, this is the Bolshoi Theatre which is depicted on a 100-ruble banknote.

Teatralnaya Square can be called the most British place in Moscow.

In 1780, Michael Maddox, a mathematician and theatrical entrepreneur from England, built a theatre in Petrovka Street and established the first permanent troupe in Moscow. Petrovsky Theatre of Maddox stood for 25 years, in 1805 the building burned down. In 1821-1824, the Italian-Russian architect Joseph Bove, using the only remaining wall of the Maddox’s theatre, constructed the monumental building for the Bolshoi Theatre, the one we admire today.

In the 1880s, two merchants from Scotland, Andrew Muir and Archibald Mirrielees, acquired a building for their haberdashery shop in Teatralnaya Square. The new building for the store was erected there in 1908 by the famous Russian architect Roman Klein. “Muir and Mirrielees” was the first and the largest department store in the last days of the Russian Empire.

The Hotel Metropol, one of the largest Moscow hotels, was built on the opposite side of the square in 1899-1907 by the Russian architect Lev Kekushev and the British architect William Walcot.

And even Karl Marx, whose monument is facing the Bolshoi Theatre, had a connection with Great Britain. Marx moved to London in June 1849 and would remain based in the city for the rest of his life. It was there that he wrote his main work which so influenced the Russian history - "Das Kapital".

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