Moscow Metro II: Buried History in the Moscow Metro

To say that the Park Pobedy (Victory Park) station is deep is to say that the Moscow Metropolitan is just a good way to get around.  Mounting the escalator, one immediately recalls the posters in the metro showing a station attendant, young, blond, and cute, in her blue uniform.  She smiles beguilingly and the text reads “Yest’ Vykhod.”  There is an exit.  This is reassuring.  The escalators,...

Moscow Metro I: The Virtual Tour

  Detail from the false cupolas of Mayakovskaya The wonders of socialist construction are few.  Visitors to the Russian capital go to see the Kremlin, Red Square, and St. Basil’s Cathedral, remnants of Moscovy, the ancient land of the Rus.  Of course Lenin’s macabre presence still draws a crowd to his mausoleum, but with the exception of the Seven Sisters—the seven soviet-gothic skyscrapers...