According to tradition, the grandstand on Red Square was originally made of wood; the current stone building with a gate made of iron grating dates from the late 1590s. In the course of time, the Lobnoje Mesto was not only used as a platform for state announcements and announcements, but also as the center of solemn events: For example, the tsars and patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church gave speeches to the people here at solemn services on Red Square. At the same time, the Lobnoje Mesto became notorious as the scene of executions, although these were not carried out directly in the stands, but a few meters away. One of the most spectacular executions on Lobnoje Mesto is the quarrying of the rebellious peasant leader Stenka Rasin in 1671, as well as the mass executions of insurgent strangers at the end of the 1690s. 1768 next to the Lobnoye Mesto the serial killer was Darya Saltykowa publicly to the front of their detention Pranger made.