🏛 Moscow Triumphal Gate

A cast-iron Doric gate honouring the victories in the wars of the 1820s, on Moskovsky Prospekt.

The author is Vasily Stasov; when built, it was the world's largest structure assembled entirely of metal.
The gate took four years to build and was solemnly opened on 16 (28) October 1838.
Back in 1780 Catherine II had commissioned a design for the city gate from Charles Clérisseau, but there was no money for it.
The portico of 12 columns in two rows is 23.2 m high and 36 m wide.
In 1936 the gate was taken apart to widen the street; during the siege its cast-iron sections were used as anti-tank barriers.
The gate was reassembled on its original site in 1959.

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