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of architecture ... a structural mass shaped without reference to illusionistic systems of support" (Brumfield). The rectangular bulk of the Metropol is self-sufficient; it needs no supporting columns. Instead, "Texture and material played a dominant expressive role, exemplified at the Metropole by
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and Petersburg Insurance consolidated a large lot of land around the former Chelyshev Hotel. Mamontov eventually hired Kekushev as a construction manager. Soon, Mamontov was jailed for fraud and the project was taken over by Petersburg Insurance.
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During wartime, from 1941 to 1945, the hotel housed American and British war correspondents posted to Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. The story of their battles with the Soviet censor is told in the non-fiction book by Alan Philps,
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bureaucracy. Eventually in the 1930s it reverted to its original function as a hotel and in 1986–1991 was thoroughly restored by Finnish companies as part of Soviet-Finnish
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In 1901, the topped-out shell burnt down and had to be rebuilt from scratch in reinforced concrete. Kekushev and Walcot hired a constellation of first-rate artists, notably
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the progression from an arcade with stone facing on the ground floor to inset windows without decorative frames on the upper floors" (Brumfield).
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Yulia Petrova; Svetlana Danilova; Anton Filatov (10 July 2010).
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had 365 rooms, each being different in its shape or decoration.
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The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
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style. It is the largest extant Moscow hotel built before the
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Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow
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Hotel Metropol Moscow official Azimut Hotels chain website
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and housed living quarters and offices for the growing
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Hotel Metropol (Moscow)
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Hotel Metropol Moscow is located in Central Moscow
Art Nouveau
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55°45′30″N 37°37′17″E / 55.75833°N 37.62139°E / 55.75833; 37.62139
Savva Mamontov
Alexander Klyachin
William Walcot
Lev Kekushev
Vladimir Shukhov
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Art Nouveau
Russian Revolution of 1917
Alexander Klyachin
Azimut Hotels
Savva Mamontov
Mikhail Vrubel
Alexander Golovin
Nikolay Andreyev
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Bolshevik
Soviet
bilateral trade

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