The Palace Sq.

Unknown photographer, 1900s. Published by The Contractors of A. S. Suvorin and C°, 1916. Phototype Sherer, Nabgolts and C, Moscow. The Collection of RNL

The Palace Sq. (or Platz, i.e. a parade-ground) is occupied by «Khimick» Stadium now. It is north-western part of former Tver Kremlin on the cape at the mouth of the Tmaka which flows into the Volga.
The history of the Kremlin goes far back into the depth of centuries. An enormous square was once tightly built: there service and trade people, clergymen dwelt and monasteries' town houses were situated. Fires followed one by one made irreplaceable detriment and at last in 1763 flame destroyed wooden buildings for the last time. The new period of its life had started since that time. Some stone dwelling houses were built in the scorched place and the buildings of the Theological College were erected. But in the first half of the XIX century practically all the stone houses in north-western part of the Kremlin didn't exist already.
In the middle of the XIX century the clergy with the support of Governor A. P. Bakunin intended to do a large scale reconstruction of the square. Beside the existed cathedral on the territory, where now an entrance into the stadium is, a construction of a new cathedral was planned which should be more spacious and not less majestic. In the same time a project of a constant bridge over the Volga was approved. It was suggested to be placed just in the very same place where later in the beginning of the XX century the «01d» bridge over the Volga stood up. However the lack of means didn't allow to realize the intention. The Palace Sq. remained to be a parade-ground. In the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries it was used for allocation different pleasure enterprises (circuses, theatres, menageries).
In 1914 the Municipal Duma banned to make booths there with the intention to give an appropriate view to an important place for town-planning, the more so as by that time it had been rounded by educational institutions: the Men's Classical Grammar School (1859) and the Commercial Women's College (1905).
In the middle of 1920s the parade-ground became the stadium «Dynamo», which was transferred to the other department (from the Ministry of the Internal Affairs to Manufacturing Union «Khimvolokno») in 1957-1958 and was given a new name - «Khimik».