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buildings framing it. However, in the second half of the 19th century the Neoclassical ensemble was destroyed by new buildings in
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into an underground channel. The river still flows diagonally under the square's park. It was designed in a symmetrical
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Moscow Encyclopaedia. Bolshaya Rossiiskaya Entsikolpediya, 1997. Article "Teatralnaya ploshchad".
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It was during a meeting in then Sverdlov Square on 5 May 1920, that an iconic picture of
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The square is named after the three theatres located on it: the
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Speech To Men Of The Red Army, Leaving For The Polish Front
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Site of the future square in the 1760s, showing the
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Russian
Moscow
Central Administrative Okrug
Tverskoy District
#1 Sokolnicheskaya line
Okhotny Ryad
#2 Zamoskvoretskaya line
Teatralnaya
#3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line
Ploshchad Revolyutsii
55°45′33″N 37°37′8″E / 55.75917°N 37.61889°E / 55.75917; 37.61889
Russian
city square
Tverskoy District
Moscow
Russia
Kuznetsky Bridge Street
Petrovka Street
Bolshoi Theatre
Maly Theatre
Russian Academic Youth Theatre
Moscow metro
Teatralnaya
Zamoskvoretskaya Line
Okhotny Ryad
Sokolnicheskaya Line
Ploshchad Revolyutsii station
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
1812 Fire of Moscow

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