View of Red Square in Moscow

The artist is Delabart

The ensemble formed in the 1780s, the author of which is supposedly considered Jacomo Kvarengi, is depicted by Delabart from south to north. It is significant that the frontal place and the Pokrovsky Cathedral were left outside the picture: Delabart sees Red Square not as a historical monument, but as the center of the updated Moscow, the only ensemble in the Catherine’s time, completed according to the canons of classicism. He writes only the central part of the area, a kind of “area in the square”. The old one -story shopping rows opposite the Kremlin walls are built -up and received a representative facade in the form of a continuous two -story arcade with a ten -column portico in the middle. On the opposite side, near the Kremlin, a symmetrical corps was erected – new shopping rows, which had a passage to the Kremlin in the center, through which a view of the Senate was revealed from the square. In the depths of the canvas – the old architectural complex at the Resurrection Gate. The same small buildings with two -story arcades flange it on the left and right. Red Square has not yet been painted (they started to bastard in 1796), but already lit in a row with oil lanterns on cast -iron poles.

The existence of this ensemble turned out to be short -lived: after the fire of 1812, a boulevard appeared along the site of the new rows along the Kremlin wall, and the old ranks were reconstructed according to the project about. And. Bow and received empire processing, they were again rebuilt in 1890-1896 according to the project of architect A. N. Pomerantsev. Since 1923, a state universal store has been located in the building (GUM).

Behind the shopping rows you can see the Senate and Nikolskaya towers, in the center – the Resurrection Gate and the building of the main pharmacy, since 1766 employed under the library of Moscow University.

On both sides of the area depicts the buildings of shopping rows. On the right – one -story shopping rows called “old”, when similar ranks were erected in front of the Kremlin walls, called “new”.

In a series of paintings by Gerard Delabart, you can see many women’s costumes. One of the characters of his painting “Type of Red Square in Moscow” is a low woman in expensive clothes – a silk sundress, Dushere, trimmed with a galloon, in a wide kokoshnik and blue silk scarf. The scarf is folded with an angle and thrown onto the kokoshnik, but not stab under the chin, but is fixed with a miniature elegant bow, decorated as a voluminous outlet.