🏛 Nikitskiye Vorota

A square at the junction of boulevards with a rotunda fountain of Pushkin and Goncharova and the Empire-style Church of the Great Ascension.

The square is named after the Nikitsky Gate of the White City and the Nikitsky Monastery, which was demolished in the 1930s.
In 1831 Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova were married in the Church of the Great Ascension at Nikitskiye Vorota.
The rotunda fountain Natalia and Alexander, with figures of the newlyweds, was installed in 1999, for Pushkin's 200th anniversary.
Sergey Merkurov's monument to Kliment Timiryazev has stood on the square since 1923.
Mark Rozovsky's U Nikitskikh Vorot Theatre grew out of a studio he founded in 1983.
The TASS building at the corner of Tverskoy Boulevard is a recognisable late Soviet modernist structure of the 1970s.

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