It building took four years to build | Gum was opened in 1893 |
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Stone shops consisted of two floors were built there with walkways, thus stores became in that time a typical form of commercial markets and houses of traders in Russia |
It took this color till it started gradually to fade | In 1917, during the revolution, the store closed and turned into a seat for government employees |
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At that time, it had a heating system and its own electricity station | This led to build a stone wall around the city |
fig 2 fig 1 Article by AMAL ZAZA Moscow through centuries Moscow was founded in 1147 A.