What to do with the hotels until they are empty? That’s right – they arrange tours. Information portal LIFE online project #mosqueteros the Moscow Committee for tourism jointly with the Museum of Moscow has launched a series of video programs, consisting of five online tours of Moscow hotels: “Metropol”, “Soviet” and “national”, “Ukraine” and “Leningrad”. Where Elizabeth Taylor, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other stars during a visit to the Moscow film festival? The public rooms were the Soviet leaders, their guests and family members? First release – “Legendary Hotel “Soviet”. Just 7 minutes away. This tour was aired today, July 27.
Tours acquaint visitors with the history of the construction of buildings, hotels, architects and artists who worked not only on the interiors, but also over every detail of the exterior. Guides hotels – the best connoisseurs of Moscow Denis Romodin, Larisa Skrypnik and Mary Kalisz. They tell interesting facts about the hotels and their guests: where Lenin lived after the formation of the new government, in which the hall Stalin signed a peace agreement with China and why had the hotel tried to do wide hallways.
In the second issue of connoisseurs of Moscow will tell about hotel “national” – one of the oldest hotels in Moscow. Located in the center – at the corner of Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets. Its history is closely connected with the history not only of Moscow but of all Russia.
the Third tour will be held in hotel “Metropol”, which looks like a “Museum under the open sky”. Exterior elegant building in the art Nouveau style has an old history and delights passers-by majolica panels, made from sketches of Vrubel, and the sculpted frieze of “the seasons”.
the Fourth issue is devoted to one of the seven legendary skyscrapers of the capital. Hotel “Ukraine” was the last of Stalin’s skyscrapers, and consists of three buildings: the Central of the 34 floors and its height is 206 meters (including 73-meter spire), and in the side wings of the house are 250 apartments.
In the fifth release cycle about Moscow’s historic hotels, the connoisseurs of Moscow will visit one of the famous Stalin skyscraper. Hotel “Leningrad” has opened its doors in 1953.
Tours will be published in the LIFE in social networks and on the platform mosqueteros.RF once a week.
