Teatralny Drive 2  

55.757868, 37.619881 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Fountain to the west of the building. Make a team selfie with it
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Историческая справка

The first fountains in Moscow were built in the early 19th century, after the completion of the Mytishchinsky aqueduct which brought clean drinking water to the centre of the city. The first fountain in Moscow was located in Trubnaya Square, near the Rozhdestvensky Convent.

Between 1830 and 1835, Giovanni Vitali, a Russian sculptor of Italian descent, designed five new fountains in Moscow, and only one of these fountains remains in its original site, separated from the Bolshoi Theatre by the Monument to Karl Marx.

Originally it was called the Petrovsky fountain after the Petrovskaya Square (now Teatralnaya) but today it is more known as Vitali fountain by the name of its creator. The fountain is embellished with bronze statues of the muses of theatre - four cupids symbolising music, poetry, comedy and tragedy.

While today Vitali fountain serves purely decorative purposes, in older times it was used to supply water to the locals — as much as 17 000 buckets a day. It also supplied water to the nearby debt prison and to the baths of the merchant Chelyshev which were situated on the site of Metropol Hotel. Note also the four lion-head outlets at the bottom — those were used to water horses.

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