🏛 Khitrovskaya Square

A small square-park on the slope of Ivanovskaya Gorka, on the site of the famous 19th-century flophouse market.

The square was laid out at his own expense and given to the city in 1824 by Major General Nikolai Khitrovo, hence the name.
In 1902 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko came here to study the life of the flophouse residents for their staging of The Lower Depths.
The flophouses in the Yaroshenko, Bunin, Kulakov and Rumyantsev houses faced the square.
The image of Khitrovka at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries was preserved in the books of Vladimir Gilyarovsky.
In 1935 the square and the lane were named after Gorky; the lane's historic name was restored in 1994.
The current park appeared after a 1930s school building was demolished in 2010.

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