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East side of the square, showing the Lobnoe Mesto (round platform from which the tsar spoke) in the foreground and the GUM department store in the background; Bove’s talent as an urban planner was revealed most fully in his work in developing the centre of Moscow, a homogeneous system of squares that connected with the historic centre, the Kremlin, which retained its predominant importance. By rebuilding the Trading Rows (1814-15; destr. 1895) in Red Square, Bove brilliantly solved the problem of including this classical building in the historically evolved ensemble of the ancient square bordered by the fortified walls of the Kremlin. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/22/2009)