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In 1156 Yuri Dolgoruky built wooden walls around a trading post on the banks of the Moskva River. This small settlement quickly became a town and encompassed the southeast area of the modern Kremlin. In 16th century new streets and small settlements were built to surround the Kremlin and Kitai-Gorod. By 1593 the new area of Moscow was encircled by a white wall of 9 km length. and named Bely Gorod (White Town); today the walls of White Town have been replaced by Bulvarnoye Koltso, wide boulevards, which surround the city center. These boulevards are as follows: Prechistensky, Nikitsky, Tverskoi, Strastnoi, Petrovsky, Rozhdestvensky, Sretensky, Chistoprudny, Pokrovsky and Yauzsk. Although Peter the Great (1672-1725) transferred the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg in 1713, Moscow’s borders and population still expanded and the city remained the heart of Russia – all Russian tsars were still crowned in Moscow's Dormition Cathedral within the Kremlin. By the 17th and 18th centuries European baroque and classic