🏛 Arbatskaya Square

The square at the start of the Arbat, with the Khudozhestvenny cinema and a metro station shaped like a five-pointed star.

The square is named after the Arbat Gate of the White City, which stood here until the end of the 18th century.
The Khudozhestvenny cinema opened in 1909, one of the oldest in Moscow; in 1912–1913 it was rebuilt by Fyodor Shekhtel.
Until 1951 the square held Nikolai Andreyev's monument to Gogol; since 1959 it has stood in the courtyard at 7a Nikitsky Boulevard, where the writer died.
The 1935 pavilion of Arbatskaya station on the Filyovskaya line is built in the shape of a five-pointed star.
Pedestrian Old Arbat begins at the square, and New Arbat, laid out in the 1960s, leads off from it.

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