* We will take a walk along Theater Square, now the main square of Saratov, which before the revolution included two squares: Bread Square and Theater Square. Let's walk along all its sides, consider a number of striking examples of architecture from different eras and discuss their features. We will find out why there were two squares, how they acquired the status of the main commercial and financial center of the city, for what reason they subsequently merged and the function of this locus changed to administrative, ceremonial and cultural-educational. Let's trace the turbulent history of constant reconstructions of buildings (banks, mansions, apartment buildings, hotels, commercial buildings, religious sites) and the square space in general. We will definitely go into the cozy courtyards, look at some of the bright buildings from the inside and talk about the people associated with these places. On our way there will be the A.N. Radishchev Art Museum, the Opera and Ballet Theater, the Tulpina House, the City Public Bank, the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank, the Karl Pal House, the mayor Vladimir Korobkov house, the Khvatov House, the Vakurov House, the Bender trading house, the chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky, Laptev Passage, the stock exchange, buildings of the Upper Bazaar, buildings of the Public Library, the Research Institute of Geology and Geophysics and the Government of the Saratov region with monumental mosaics.