Red Square Photo Gallery and related media
Red Square
Ivan the Great (1440-1505)
In the late 1440s, Ivan III began a massive building project in what is now Red Square, clearing the existing Moscow slums and reconstructing the Kremlin and its walls.
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For more than 500 years, Moscow's Red Square has been a focal point of Russian political and cultural life.
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