A Square or a Crossroads? The Vernacular in Urban Policy of Moscow Classicism Authors Julia Klimenko Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning; MArchI; ICOMOS; Russian Society for the Study of the XVIII Century Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.61.1514 Published 2019-08-29 Issue No. 61 (2019): small and historic Section Articles How to Cite A Square or a Crossroads? The Vernacular in Urban Policy of Moscow Classicism. (2019). Project Baikal, 16(61), 126-131. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.61.1514 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: embellishment; town planning art; Russian classicism; French neoclassicism; Empire style; adjustment of urban space Abstract In the history of Moscow classicism there were many unsuccessful attempts to create regular squares. In the modern historical center of Moscow there are a lot of squares, which are actually intersections or carfaxes. The article analyzes the architectural policies from Catherine II to Alexander I. The study of the discovered archival documents makes it possible to compare them with the experience of Western European urban planning of the age of Enlightenment.