Pushkinskaya Square (1917-1956)

Pre-revolutionary chronicle: Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow.

Strastnoy Monastery.

Pushkinskaya Square in 1926. Izvestia building.

People on the street, cars.

View of the square from above.

Monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Pushkinskaya Square in 1937. Men dismantle a mountain of bricks from the destroyed Strastnoy Monastery.

Destroyed bell tower.

Pushkinskaya Square in 1939. Trolleybuses go along Gorky Street.

Pushkinskaya Square in 1950. Monument to Pushkin in scaffolding.

Moving the monument to the opposite side.

Monument to Pushkin in a new location.

People, trams, cars (from above).

Strastnoy Monastery.

Gorky Street.

Demonstration.

Budyonny on horseback on Red Square.

Budyonny riding along the troops.

GUM building.