Gostiny Dvor
Neoclassical merchant arcade with Corinthian columns, its floor once hiding a buried coin hoard.
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This guide to Gostiny Dvor in Moscow starts with a merchant's house that burned down in the sixteen forties, then follows the site through Catherine the Great's order in seventeen eighty nine and the two architects, Giacomo Quarenghi and Osip Bove, who gave the merchant court its Corinthian columns and arcades. It passes through the years after the revolution, when the halls were carved up into offices. Best heard indoors, standing in the main hall beneath the glass roof.
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