Tverskaya Ploshchad

Moscow


A statue of the founder of Moscow, Yury Dolgoruky, presides over this prominent square near the bottom of Tverskaya ul. So does Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, as the buffed-up five-storey building opposite is the Moscow mayor’s office.

Many ancient churches are hidden in the surrounding backstreets, including the 17th-century Church of Sts Kosma and Damian.


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