Tverskaya Zastava () is a square in

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in Moscow.

Belorussky railway station Belorussky railway station (, ) also referred to as Moscow–Passenger–Smolenskaya (, ), Informally the whole station can be called as Moscow Belorusskaya (, ), is a railway terminal of the Moscow Railway located at the front of Tverskaya Zast ...

faces the square. The streets which terminate at the square are, in counterclockwise order,

Leningradsky Avenue Leningradsky Prospekt (), or Leningrad Avenue, is a major arterial avenue in Moscow, Russia. It extends north-west from Belorussky Rail Terminal as a continuation of Tverskaya Street and 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, changing its name to Lenin ...

, Gruzinsky Val, 2nd Brestskaya Street, 1st Brestskaya Street, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Lesnaya Street, and Butyrsky Val.

History

The site of the square is the former edge of the city of Moscow on the road to

Tver Tver (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers. Tver is located northwest of Moscow. Population: The city is ...

. A customs post (''zastava'') was established there in 1742. Victorious Russian armies passed through the gate there, and in 1814 a wooden

triumphal arch A triumphal arch is a free-standing monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road, and usually standing alone, unconnected to other buildings. In its simplest form, a triumphal ...

was erected at what was now called Triumphalnaya (Triumphal) Square, to celebrate victory over

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

.History of Tverskaya Zastava Square
at Moscow International Portal
archived
on 2019-03-06. In 1834 this was replaced by a masonry archTriumphal Arch
at Moscow International Portal
archived
on 2015-05-09. and the square was renamed New Triumphal Gates Square. What is now Belorussky railway station opened at the square in 1870 under the name of Smolensky station. It was renamed to Brest station after the line was extended, and again to Aleksandrovsky station after the building was redesigned. In May 1936 it was given its present name of Belorussky station. That year the square was redesigned and the arch removed; it is now at Victory Square. By 1950 Tverskaya Zastava Square had been laid out as a park. A bronze statue of

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

was installed there in 1951, but when the square was reconstructed in 2008, was removed to the sculpture park near the Central House of Artists.

Gallery

Площадь Тверская Застава (вид сверху).jpg,

Intersection In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously. For example, in Euclidean geometry, when two lines in a plane are not parallel, their ...

at Tverskaya Zastava Square Tverskaya Zastava 1920.jpg, Tverskaya Zastava Square in 1920, with

Triumphal Arch of Moscow The third and the oldest surviving triumphal arch in Moscow was built in 1829–34 on Tverskaya Zastava Square to Joseph Bové's designs in order to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleon during the French invasion of Russia in 1812. It r ...

Tverskaya zastava-18vek.jpg, Tverskaya Zastava in the 18th century (painting by

Francesco Camporesi Francesco Camporesi (1747, Bologna – 1831, Moscow) was an Italian architect, painter, engraver and educator who worked in Moscow in 1780s-1820s. Most of his architectural work perished in the Fire of 1812, was severely altered, demolished or ...

)

References

{{Reflist Streets in Moscow