Zaryadye
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Zaryadye (Russian: Зарядье) is a historical district in Moscow established in 12-13th centuries within Kitai-gorod. The name means "the place behind the rows", i.e., behind the market rows adjacent to the Red Square.
In the Soviet times, in 1960s, the huge Rossiya Hotel and Russia movie theater have been built in the area. The builders spared only those structures that were classified as historic monuments. These include Cathedral of the Sign (1679-84), the Church of All Saints (1610s), St. George Church on Pskov Hill (1657), St. Maksim Church (1698), St. Anna's Church at the Corner (1510s), St. Barbara Church (1796-1804), the Old English Embassy (1550s), and the 16th-century Romanov boyar residence. There is no other such cluster of old edifices left anywhere else in Moscow.
The hotel was demolished in 2006 to give way to a modernization of the district.
 16th-century Romanov boyar residence |
 Kitai-gorod's Wall |
 Church of All Saints |
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