Basmanny District
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Basmanny District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 108,204; 100,899.
Apraksin-Trubetskoy Palace
Church in former Khitrov Market
The Egg House in Mashkova Street, a 1998 design by Sergey Tkachenko, lists for 7 million US Dollars
St. Peter and Paul, built to a drawing by Tsar Peter the Great
German Quarter
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The German Quarter, also known as the Kukuy Quarter, was a neighbourhood in the northeast of Moscow, located on the right bank of the Yauza River east of the former Kukuy Creek, within the present-day
Basmanny District
…side of Yauza. The district contains Kursky Rail Terminal, historical areas of Khitrovka, Clean Ponds, Red Gates (shared with Krasnoselsky District), German Quarter and Basmannaya Sloboda. It retains memorial buildings of Petrine Baroque, Neoclassicism and Art Nouveau periods. Its history is closely associated with…
At the German Quarter by Alexandre Benois (1911)
Muscovites tended to treat foreigners living at the German quarter with suspicion
Lefortovskaya Square, post-1812 buildings