THE RUSSIAN REVIVAL STYLE AND ITS ROLE IN REVEALINGOF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY OF MOSCOW'S NOVAYA SQUARE

In my paper I will discuss the environmental capacity of no longer existing fragments of the Kitai-Gorod town wall in Moscow. Begun in the 18th century, reconstruction, architectural and artistic redesign of the fortress sections, which led to the formation of Novaya Square, is a process that is incomplete to this day. This is a result of both natural and socio-political reasons. For specialists in the urban environment, subjects related to the pre-revolutionary reconstruction of the town wall and its destruction of the 1930s-1940s are interesting not only for their architectural and urban planning collisions. The building of the Museum of Applied Knowledge (1874-1906) that accompanies the wall, became a participant in the dialogue between the fortified city and the modernizing city and now, along with the building of the Historical Museum, claims to be the link supporting the almost non-preserved structure. Combining existing walking routes from the Kremlin to Zaryadye, the Polytechnic Museum area acts as a compositional node of the former fortress, which still serves as the basis for the urban planning system of the Moscow center. My paper examines the visual and communication aspects of eclecticism, traces the historical continuity of Moscow architecture of the 17th-19th centuries, and discusses the possibilities inherent in the Russian Revival style for the formation of a comfortable urban environment.