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History of GUM

This shop has an ideal location. Until 1921, when Lenin nationalized it and renamed it “GUM”, this largest and most famous in Moscow was known as the Upper Trading Arcade.

The building was designed by Aleksander Pomerantsev 1888 and 1893. It was constructed of sandstone at the cost of six million rubles, not counting the of the land.

The three-storey-high building, occupying an area of some 24,500 square metres, replaced the old merchant arcades that existed on the site since the 15th century. Three parallel glass-covered passages cross the ground floor, with bridges linking the passages on the second and third floors. Each passage corresponds what used to be the distance between the 16th-century trading rows.

The offices located on the third floor once belonged to such Moscow merchants as the Tretyakovs, Ryabushinskys, and a score of other wealthy textile traders anxious to an eye on the sales of their wares.

In pre revolutionary days, GUM was famous for its textiles and furs. There was a wide of fabrics, from coarse woolens to fine silks woven with gold and silver threads. No less impressive was the collection of furs, ranging from expensive blue fox and sable to cheap coats by Muscovites as “guardians of the house” because they were made from dog fur.