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