Monuent to Guard

Built in 1993, this is a replica of the 17th century church built to commemorate victory over the Poles and demolished in the 1930s by the Bolsheviks.

The Moscow Print Yard was the first publishing house in Russia that was established at the behest of Ivan the Terrible in 1553. There the first Russian printed book was produced and Ivan Fedorov worked. There are some objects of cultural heritage on the Yard: the original fragment of Kitai-Gorod wall (1530s), two Chambers of The Moscow Print Yard (15-19th century) and an unusual building of Synodal Printing House. The historic headquarters of the Print Yard now house the Russian State University for the Humanities.