ploschad

Updated: May 20, 2025

On the Krasnaya Ploschad the great Red Square, which is the central point of the old town the soldiers were already buying and selling the spoil wrested from the burning Exchange. It seemed that the citizens before leaving had collected their merchandise in this building to burn it. To the rank-and-file this meant nothing but an incomprehensible stupidity.

Henry Seton Merriman - Barlasch of the Guard