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St Petersburg Sights

Moscow Gates

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  • Address
    • pl Moskovskie Vorota
  • Transport
    • Moskovskie Vorota

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Lonely Planet review for Moscow Gates

About 4km south of Sennaya pl, the iron Triumphal Arch looks much like Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, though it is somewhat less than grand in its surroundings. The arch was built by Vasily Stasov in 1838 to mark victories over Turks, Persians and Poles. Demolished in 1936, it was rebuilt between 1959 and 1961. Local legend has it that the gate is built on the spot where the earliest travellers entering the city had to show that they had brought bricks or stones to be used in the construction of buildings.

 

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