Slavyanskaya Square

The square received its name after the inauguration of a monument to Cyril and Mephodius (144), "the first teachers of the Slavs" who gave them "kirillitsa" - the Cyrillic alphabet, their first alphabet of written language.

Zaryadye - Lubyanka - Teatralnaya Square

The All Saints's Church in Kulishki - Staraya Square - The Polytechnical Museum - Lubyanskaya Square - The Metropol Hotel - The Maly Theatre - Teatralnaya Square - The Central Department Store - The Bolshoi Theatre

The All Saints' Church in Kulishki

The church was built by Dmitry Donskoi to commemorate those killed in the Kulikovskaya Battle of 1380.

Slavynskaya (Slavic) Square is small. In its right corner is the All Saints' Church in Kulishki built in the times when this place was a lowland covered with small puddles and creeks (in Old Russian those were called "kulizhki"). The church was named after the place it was built on. It was first erected by Dmitry Donskoi (of the Don) to commemorate all the killed in the Kulikovskaya battle of 1380. Those killed on the battlefield have been prayed for here for nearly 600 years as the church was founded only 200 years later than Moscow was. It was closed in the early 1930s by the Bolsheviks and militant atheists, and was opened to the parish only in 1991.

The Delovoy Dvor (Business Yard) was situated in the square behind the church. It included warehouses, presentation halls, offices and hotels. After the revolution military departments, an NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) prison, and some offices of the Central Committee of the CPSU were located there.