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Khitrovka

Basmanny District, Russia

Khitrovka
Khitrovka. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Khitrovskaya Square, also known historically as Khitrov marketplace or simply Khitrovka, is a square in the centre of Moscow that existed from the 1820s to 1930s and was restored in the 2010s. In the second half of the 19th century Khitrovka became a bawdy place of Moscow, a den for thousands of unemployed and criminals. It is described by V.A. Gilyarovsky, C.S. Stanislavsky and other authors.

Square data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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