A major fire yesterday gutted a historic building just outside the Kremlin that was used by aristocrats during tsarist days as a horse-riding centre.

Moscow's fire service said two firefighters were killed trying to bring the blaze under control.

Reuters reporters said the roof and much of the structure had collapsed within an hour of fire erupting in the Manege, built in the mid-19th century and briefly used as a garage by the Bolshevik revolutionaries.

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