The Ploschad Revolyutsii station is the stop nearest Red Square, so it is probably not surprising that it is one of the most beautiful.
The platforms were decorated with 76 bronze statues like the one above, and even included 4 bronze hunting dogs whose noses supposedly needed to be rubbed for luck!
Clearly lots of Moscow commuters think they need some luck :)
My favourite station was the Kiyevskaya Station, which is the underground station for the railway line from Moscow to Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine.
I thought at first these ladies were sewing but alas not :)
The lighting in some of the stations was another highlight,
and the chandeliers at Komsomolskaya Station. I felt that I should be in a cocktail dress and evening gloves :)
Wouldn't this make a wonderful quilting pattern?
Apparently the Moscow Metro system is the busiest metro system outside of Asia and the world's busiest by daily users, but every station that we visited was absolutely spotless so you would never have guessed. If you ever get the opportunity to visit some of the beautiful stations on the Moscow Metro, then I highly recommend that you take it. We will definitely be going back!
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so very different to our underground and so spotless too a lesson to be learnt here about dropping rubbish etc
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that a tour was available!
ReplyDeleteG and I are both engineers and we relied on the letters as maths symbols to figure our way around - great fun going in the wrong direction twice! Got to see quite a bit that way and it is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAmazing. It must have been a joy to travel on the Underground there. So unlike in London where it's a means to an end
ReplyDeleteAmazing. It must have been a joy to travel on the Underground there. So unlike in London where it's a means to an end
ReplyDeleteLove the decor! I'd heard that their underground was beautiful but Andy only ever got to see airports and train stations when he was there.
ReplyDeleteHow amazing, I had no idea it would be like that, beats the NYC subway hands down!!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a step back in time, Fiona. Would be fascinating to see in real life. So different to our train stations.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is quite the setup there!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely. Thanks for being my tour guide once again
ReplyDeleteI was noticing how clean and well looked after the stations are. Not even one burnt light bulb! Impressive. Can't say the same for the underground in Milan...
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