Manezhnaya SquareМанежевая площадь

Manezhnaya Square sits on the threshold between the Kremlin and modern Moscow, its name tied to the vast Manege riding hall built in 1817 for Alexander I’s victory celebrations. Shaped and reshaped by imperial ceremony, Soviet planning, and a major 1990s reconstruction, the space reads as a palimpsest of power and public life. The 1997 Four Seasons fountain by Zurab Tsereteli adds a post-Soviet note of spectacle, while the Okhotny Ryad complex beneath the paving turns the square into a meeting of street, memory, and reinvention.,