🏛 TsUM (formerly Muir & Mirrielees)

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A Gothic building with spires and huge windows, Moscow's first department store, built to a design by Klein.

The Scots Andrew Muir and Archibald Mirrielees registered the Muir & Mirrielees trademark in 1857.
The store on Teatralnaya Square opened in 1885 as a shop of ladies' hats and haberdashery.
Here prices were first written on the goods themselves, so haggling stopped; returns were accepted too.
After fires in 1892 and 1900, Roman Klein built a seven-story Neo-Gothic building, opened in 1908.
The store has been called TsUM since 1933, and during the war the building housed barracks.
The 1974 wing is in the same style as the historic one, and in 2007–2008 an extension doubled the area.

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