Red Square - Manezhnaya Square - the Troitsky Gates<br><br>
Red Square - The Spasskaya (Our Saviors) Tower - The St. Basil's Cathedral- The Minin and Pozharsky Monument - The Lobnoye mesto - The Cathedral of the  Kazan Icon of the Blessed Virgin -  The Voskresenskiye Gates and the Iverskaya Chapel - Alexander Gardens - Manezhnaya Square<br><br>

(1) Red Square<br><br>
Red Square was always the main square of Moscow. In Old Russian "red" meant "beautiful". The Kremlin is situated near it.
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Let us begin our trip from here. In ancient times, there was a pinewood thicket ("bor") here that gave name to the Borovitsky hill. The word "Kremlin", or "kremnik" as the Moscow fortress was called in the chronicles, first appeared in 1339 - 1340. At that time during the rule of Ivan Kalita new walls of solid oak were built. Thus, the word might have been derived from the Greek "kremnos" meaning "solid", but a more probable version presumes that it stems from the Slavic root "krem", "kremnik" meaning "pinery" or "forest". The place retained this name even after the 15th century when a new red-brick Kremlin was built.


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