Initially, Pushkin Square was called Strastnaya. Strastnaya Square was formed at the end of the XVIII century on the site of the demolished Tver Gate of the White City.

The main attraction of Pushkin Square is the bronze monument to Alexander Pushkin, located near Tverskaya Street. Behind the monument is the fountain "Pushkin" — a complex of 3 fountains.

Pushkin Square ends with the huge steps of the Rossiya Theater (the former Pushkin Cinema) leading to the central entrance. There's a Music Hall here now.
Previously, there was a women's Passion monastery on this site. In 1919, the Holy Monastery was closed. And in 1928, an anti-religious museum was placed in it. They showed the incorruptible relics of the saints and said that their preservation was due only to the environmental conditions in which the corpses lay. The well-preserved corpses of a counterfeiter and a rat were also shown as proof
It was demolished in 1937. And now only a memorial plaque reminds of him.
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