Many thanks to all for your ratings and comments. It is very important and interesting to know your opinion. Unfortunately, there is little time left for the site, therefore, temporarily, was to come, a little less than usual.
And as a continuation of the theme fountain of light. Fountain at Tverskaya Square. Where is the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. The founder of Moscow. The monument is located behind the tree, I promise to expose, but a little later.

Tverskaya Square (in 1912-18 Skobelevskaya Square, in memory of the hero of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-78, Adjutant General MD Skobelev, in 1918-93 the Soviet area), the area between Tverskaya street and Stoleshnikov. Founded in 1792, before the House Chief of Moscow (Tverskaya street, 13) as a ground for divorce guard. In early 1820-ies. in place of the current park built Tver private house - part of the police with fire-tower and the guard-house (demolished in 1923).
Left wing, 2 / 6 (1930.) Included a part of the hotel building, "North" (later "Dresden"), built in 1830 (at the hotel stayed Pushkin, Nekrasov, B . Surikov, Turgenev, Chekhov and other cultural figures). In 1878 the area passed the grandiose celebrations of the victory in the Russian-Turkish war, during which were first used for illumination, electric candles Yablochkov. In the XX century. area became a venue for rallies and demonstrations. In 1912 the area was a monument Skobelev (sculptor Samonov PA) in 1918, the monument was destroyed in its place is open obelisk of the Soviet Constitution (architect D. P. Osipov), in front of the obelisk in 1919 the statue of Liberty (sculptor N. A. Andreev), after which the entire track was called the Freedom Monument (from 1924 to early 1940's. his image was the official symbol of Moscow). In 1925-27 the area constructed building of the Central Party Archive of the Marx-Engels-Lenin (architect SE Chernyshev, now the Russian Center for preservation and use of modern history), in late 1930 - early 1940's. in front of a monument to VI Lenin (SD Merkurov sculptor, architect IA Frenchman). In the 1930's. area, as Gorky Street (Tverskaya Street), has been reconstructed, laid park with a fountain. In 1941 the monument was torn down Liberty as "not an appropriate architectural appearance area. In 1954 an area of the monument to the founder of Moscow, Prince Yuri Dolgoruky (sculptor S. Orlov and others, the architect Vladimir Andreev), erected in connection with the 800 anniversary of Moscow, in 1962, was accepted by the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of re-establishment by 1964 of the monument of Freedom, and move the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky to the Novodevichy Monastery (the project is not implemented).

Regards, Oleg.

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