LENINGRADSKAYA HOTEL
THE SOVIET TEMPLE OF HOSPITALITY
- "You were entrusted with building a hotel, and you built a church!" - Ekaterina Furtseva, the all-powerful Minister of Culture of the USSR, threw such a remark at architect Leonid Polyakov. And it happened in 1953, before the opening of the new Leningradskaya Hotel on Komsomolskaya Square. Furtseva visited only the rebuilt hotel in order to see with her own eyes the luxury and chic of the Stalinist Empire style, for which untold money was allocated. Later, critics of Stalin's construction blamed the architect of the hotel, L. Polyakov said that he had built an incredibly expensive and luxurious hotel, and allegedly with the money spent it was possible to build a tourist hotel with a thousand rooms. And there were just over three hundred of them in Leningradskaya. Because this is the first hotel in the USSR, in which each room had its own bathroom.node. Except for the Moscow Hotel, but that's another story. And only thanks to the intercession of A. Mikoyan, Polyakov escaped criminal responsibility for the construction of Leningradskaya. Now the hotel belongs to the world-famous Hilton hotel chain and we can see the unique interiors of the building, which were lovingly restored during the reconstruction in 2008.
- YOU WILL SEE:
- Historical interiors of the hotel lobby and lobby
- The halls of the hotel's restaurants.
- The most expensive finishing stone in the world.
- A unique chandelier, listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
- Trophy statues from the defeated Berlin.
- YOU'LL FIND OUT:
- How and for what E.A. Furtseva took revenge on the architect of the hotel L. Polyakov.
- What unites the architecture of the hotel building and the architectural ensemble of Komsomolskaya Square.
- What details of the hotel's interior can be seen in the Moscow metro?
- The history of Moscow's "Stalinist" skyscrapers.
- ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
- The duration of the tour of the hotel is more than 2 hours.
- The tour starts and the group gathers at the entrance to the Leningradskaya Hotel.
- Inside the hotel, there are ascents and descents of stairs to the ground floor.
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Moscow, Leninsky prospekt, 146, office 350
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