Category:Manezhnaya Ploschad

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Manezhnaya Ploschad is a square near Kremlin.

Sculptor Zurab Tsereteli was awarded the privilege to embellish Manezhnaya Square with heroes of Russian folk-tales and to place bronze horses surrounded by a cloud of water-drops in the fountains of pseudo-Neglinka river.

The big building in Manezhnaya Ploschad is well-known hotel Moskva. There is a legend that architect Schusev brought two projects of a hotel to Stalin and it happened so that both of them were on the same paper. Stalin didn’t hesitate and put his signature in the middle signing both projects. Poor architect scared to death decided to combine two projects in one. That is why the left part of the facade of hotel Moskva differs from the right one.

The bronze horseman near “Moskva” is one of Soviet greatest commanders – marshal Georgy Zhukov, the hero of the Great Patriotic War. An interesting red building in Pseudo-Russian style serves as a background for this Victor of the Fascist Germany: it is the State Historical museum, a quaint creation of architects V.Shervud and A.Semenov.

Right after the Historical Museum there is the "zero kilometer"; from this point all the distances in Russia are said to be measured.

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