This gallery allows you to sample the views of Moscow both today and from a hundred years ago, to see how the city has changed; how it looked before the tumultuous events of the Great War and the Great Revolution and how it stands today.

First electric lamps at the Red Square. 1896
© Sputnik / Ekaterina Chesnokova / Go to the mediabankThe view of cyclists on Red Square in Moscow.2015

The view of cyclists on Red Square in Moscow.2015
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabankDmitry Solunsky Church at the Strastnaya Square (currently Pushkinskaya Square) and the view of Tverskaya Street in Moscow. 1914

Dmitry Solunsky Church at the Strastnaya Square (currently Pushkinskaya Square) and the view of Tverskaya Street in Moscow. 1914

Traffic at Tverskaya Street in Moscow. 2017
© Sputnik / Evgenyi Leonov / Go to the mediabankThe view of Yauza River from the Vysokoyauzsky Bridge in Moscow. 1880s

The view of Yauza River from the Vysokoyauzsky Bridge in Moscow. 1880s
© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova / Go to the mediabankThe view of Yauza River from the Vysokoyauzsky Bridge in Moscow. 2016

The view of Yauza River from the Vysokoyauzsky Bridge in Moscow. 2016

Arbat Street in Moscow. 1888

Passersby at the (Old) Arbat Street in Moscow. 2016
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabankThe view of the Bolshoi Theater during the 5th All-Russian Congress of the Soviets. July 1918

The view of the Bolshoi Theater during the 5th All-Russian Congress of the Soviets. July 1918

The view of the Bolshoi Theater. 2017

Lubyanka Square in Moscow. 1899
© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova / Go to the mediabankFSB Headquarters at the Lubyanka Square in Moscow. 2017

FSB Headquarters at the Lubyanka Square in Moscow. 2017

A tram in Moscow. 1925

Tram at Tverskaya Zastava Square in Moscow. 2017

Borodinsky Bridge across Moskva River in Moscow. 1925
© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov / Go to the mediabankBorodinsky Bridge across Moskva River in Moscow. 2016

Borodinsky Bridge across Moskva River in Moscow. 2016