Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·
the Moscow Metro was built to look like palaces
'Palaces for the people'. Chandeliers, mosaics, marble. Also built deep enough to double as bomb shelters.
5 sources · 35 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “moscow metro stations chandeliers”
- Ended at
- Stalinist architecture
The Trail
- “moscow metro stations chandeliers” (google.com)
- Moscow Metro (en.wikipedia.org)
- Komsomolskaya (Koltsevaya line) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mayakovskaya (Moscow Metro) (en.wikipedia.org)
used as a bomb shelter and command post in WWII
- Stalinist architecture (en.wikipedia.org)
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