Description & Facts: www.ceepackaging.com http www.youtube.com A walk up Tverskaya street and into Pushkin Square with Masha and Diana explaining what is going on. Tverskaya is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. Tverskaya Street (Тверская улица), known as Gorky Street (улица Горького) between 1935 and 1990 and (unofficially) Piterskaya (Питерская улица) in the preceding decades, runs from the central Manege Square north-west in the direction of Saint Petersburg and terminated at the Garden Ring, giving its name to Tverskoy District. The route continues further as First Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Leningradsky Prospekt and Leningradskoye Shosse. Tverskaya Street existed as early as the 12th century. Its importance for the medieval city was immense, as it connected Moscow with its superior, and later chief rival, Tver. At that time, the thoroughfare crossed the Neglinnaya River. The first stone bridge across the Neglinnaya was set up in 1595. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Tverskaya Street was renowned as the centre of Moscow's social life. The nobility considered it fashionable to settle in this district. Among the Palladian mansions dating from the reign of Catherine the Great are the residence of the mayor of Moscow (1778-82, rebuilt in ), and the English Club (1780s). During the imperial period, the importance of the thoroughfare was highlighted by the fact that it was through this street that the tsars arrived from the Northern capital to their Kremlin residence