Tverskaya-Yamskaya ulitsa

Tverskaya-Yamskaya ulitsa Review

This last section of Tverskaya ulitsa leads to the Belorussian railway station, which also has two interconnecting metro stations. The station is where trains roll in from Western Europe. A statue of Maxim Gorky, erected in the 1950s, stands in a small park outside the station. It's near the site of the former Triumphal Gates, built in the 19th century by the architect Osip Bove to commemorate the Russian victory in the war with Napoléon. The gates were demolished in a typical fit of destruction in the 1930s. Fragments can be found on the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery. A replica of the original gates was erected in 1968 near Poklonnaya Hill, at the end of Kutuzovsky prospekt.