House Of Unions

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    Manezh Square, city centre
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Lonely Planet review

The green-columned House of Unions dates from the 1780s. Its ballroom - known as the Hall of Columns - is the famous location of one of Stalin's most grotesque show trials, that of Nikolai Bukharin, a leading Communist Party theorist who had been a close associate of Lenin. Next door is the seat of the Russian parliament, the State Duma. This glowering building was erected in the 1930s for Gosplan (Soviet State Planning Department), source of the USSR's infamous Five-Year Plans.