White City

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Today boulevards are Moscow integral part, but only two centuries ago there were no trees and park-benches but an assailable fortress wall, the wall which surrounded the area of Kremlin and Kitay-gorod. It was built of white stone, therefore the enclosed city was named Bely Gorod, or "the White City". For many centuries this wall, built in the end of the 16th century, scared away the enemies with its imposing size – 10 metres high and 5-6 metres thick. But by the 18th century it had lost its defensive significance and started to dilapidate; that is why it was dismantled and replaced with the Boulevard Ring. Today only a piece of the ancient wall in the underpass near Kitay-gorod and square names Pokrovskie vorota, Nikitskie vorota, Sretenskie vorota (“vorota” means gates) remind us of the old fortress.

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