Upper Trade Rows in Kitai-gorod, Moscow. Photographs taken in 1886, prior to the enactment of an ordinance that condemned the whole area to demolition. Upper Trade Rows, built by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Joseph_Bove" title="Category:Joseph Bove">Joseph Bove</a> in 1810s, were demolished by 1888, and soon replaced by a new and larger shopping building, now known as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Moscow_GUM" title="Category:Moscow GUM">Moscow GUM</a>.<br>
Plate 1: General view taken from the back (facing Red Square).
Although the book as a whole is credited solely to <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Найдёнов, Николай Александрович">Nikolay Naidenov</a> (1834-1905), this particular image has "E. Simonov" watermark in lower right corner.
N. A. Naidenov (1890). <i>Moskva. Gorodskie ryady (Москва. Городские ряды).</i> Kushnerev's prinitng house, photo plates printed by Scherer Nabholz and Co., Moscow.<br>Web source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://imwerden.de/pdf/najdenov_moskovskie_sobory_tom5.pdf">http://imwerden.de/pdf/najdenov_moskovskie_sobory_tom5.pdf</a> . It is a scan of a bound compilation of various Naidenov's books; <i>Trade Rows</i> start from page 83 to page 119. Plates 1 to 21 (source file pages 88 to 108) show the Upper Rows, plates 22 to 32 (source pages 109 to 119) show the Middle Rows.