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Tverskaya Street is the most expensive shopping street in Moscow and Russia. According to an index published by global real estate company
Colliers International in 2008, it is now the third most expensive street in the world, based on commercial rental fees. It is the center of the city's
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Towards the end of the 19th century, the street was reconstructed, with stately neoclassical mansions giving way to grandiose commercial buildings in an eclectic mixture of historical styles. A characteristic edifice of the time is the
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in April, 2007, to be completed in 2009. Work is already underway at the first location. Both squares will acquire complex multi-level, grade-separated crossings and underground shopping malls, despite objections from
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During the imperial period, the importance of the thoroughfare was highlighted by the fact that it was through this street that the tsars arrived from the
Northern capital to stay at their Kremlin residence. Several
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Tourists are told that
Tverskaya Street existed as early as the 12th century. Its importance for the medieval city was immense, as it connected Moscow with its superior, and later chief rival,
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, Tverskaya Street was renowned as the centre of Moscow's social life. The nobility considered it fashionable to settle in this district. Among the
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assumed power, he encouraged a return to the country's old
Russian names. Thus, the street's name became "Tverskaya Street" again, after a 55-year interlude as Gorky Street.
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Plans for the reconstruction of the
Tverskaya radius into a grade-separated freeway, already under way in remote parts of the route (see
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as a staging ground for mass processions and parades. In 1947, the square was decorated with an equestrian statue of Prince
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in mid-1930s, the street acquired three modernist buildings -
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