TSUM
Neo-Gothic 1908 department store tower with pointed windows, Moscow's first electric elevator and revolving doors.
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This guide to TSUM in Moscow opens with Anton Chekhov naming two of his dachshunds after this store, a name so foreign Muscovites could not pronounce it. It traces the store's roots to two Scottish traders who opened a grand department store here in 1885 modeled on Parisian shops, and follows the fire that gutted the building in 1900 and the Gothic Revival tower architect Roman Klein raised in its place, wired with Moscow's first electric elevator and revolving doors. Listen for how Muscovites' shortened nickname for the store came about.
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