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A depiction of the Sukharev Tower in 1872 by artist
Alexei Savrasov. Note the premodern wooden shacks in the foreground.

A depiction of the Sukharev Tower in 1872 by artist
Alexei Savrasov. Note the premodern wooden shacks in the foreground.

Map of Zaryadye District, Moscow. Historical background from 1836 Khotev's Atlas. Color coding by Wikimedia user NVO. Surviving buildings are highlighted in green, and the future profiles of the Rossiya Hotel and the Moskvoretsky Bridge are in red…

Map of Zaryadye District, Moscow. Historical background from 1836 Khotev's Atlas. Color coding by Wikimedia user NVO. Surviving buildings are highlighted in green, and the future profiles of the Rossiya Hotel and the Moskvoretsky Bridge are in red…

Drawing of the Spas-Na-Boru Cathedral in the 1800s from the walls of the Kremlin. The towers of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower are visible in the background.

Oil painting of the Red Gate by artist Karl-Fridrikh Petrovich Bodri.

Detail from Melchior Lorich's panorama of Constantinople. High above the Golden Horn is the Sultan Mehmed-Fathi complex.

Detail from Melchior Lorich's panorama of Constantinople. High above the Golden Horn is the Sultan Mehmed-Fathi complex.

Elizabeth Petrovna's Red Gate in the 1860's. Note the double-headed eagle carving, which was added for Nicholas I's coronation in 1825 and replaced a portrait of Elizabeth.

Archival photo of the Spas-Na-Boru ("Savior in the Woods") Cathedral in the Kremlin, Moscow.