Moscow. (Anatoly Korolev, RIA Novosti commentator)...
His idea has met with enthusiasm around the globe, and there are more than a hundred tourist attractions on the list of contenders. The Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India, and Machu Picchu, the fortress city of the Incas in Peru, top the list, which also includes two gems of Moscow-Red Square and its Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed. Another Red Square edifice, the Lenin Mausoleum, was left off the list of wonders-a pity, to my mind. It is unique in Soviet history, and it is high time to intercede on behalf of the mausoleum now that calls to pull it down are not so insistent as before.
Red Square was a shopping area before the 1917 October Revolution. It hosted huge Palm Sunday bazaars and Easter festivals. A boulevard with stores and market stalls stretched along the Kremlin wall, and tramway tracks crossed the square in 1910.
After the street fighting of October 1917, the victorious Bolsheviks buried 238 victims in Red Square, turning it into a revolutionary necropolis.
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