GUM
Grand glass-roofed nineteenth-century trading arcade of three galleries lined with shops around Red Square.
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This guide to GUM in Moscow opens with a funeral held inside the glass-vaulted arcade in 1932, for Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and traces the building's turn from a bustling nineteenth-century trading arcade into shuttered Soviet government offices. It follows the Upper Trading Rows through decades of closure before Muscovites found themselves lining up here again, chasing goods that were hard to find anywhere else in the Soviet Union. Picture the lines stretching clear across Red Square outside.
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