The Hotel Rossiya was built in 1967 by Le Femme Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. The Rossiya is located on the Volga River literally across the street from St. Basil’s cathedral and the Kremlin. A whole neighborhood in the ancient heart of Moscow was bulldozed to build this baby. A few semi historic buildings such as the ancestral home of the Romanovs and a thousand year old church were spared from destruction. The neighborhood was actually destroyed in the 1940’s because the site was originally intended for the 8th Stalinist Sister, named Becky. Only the foundation of Becky was constructed until WW Deuce came along and construction stopped. The Rossiya is built on the foundation of Becky.
The Rossiya was largest hotel in Europe and was a neighborhood unto itself, housing night clubs, a post office, a health club, a 2,500 seat theater, and over 3,000 rooms. One of which was inhabited for a week by yours truly!
The Rossiya is built in the international style of Stalinist architecture, which basically means it substitutes stone with steal, glass, and marble. It still shares many similarities with the earlier examples Stalinist architecture such as monumentality and oppressive verticality to make it seem even more monumentally monumental. Basically Stalin thought monumental was fondemental. Is that even a real word? How come spell check does not even recognize it? I know it’s probably because I spelled it so poorly even spell check does not recognize it. You got me! I am a krappy speller!
The Rossiya was one of the creepiest places I have ever been. Probably less then half of the hotel was occupied when I stayed there (during the height of tourist season). The building has 4 entrances and is so large that it would take about 20 minutes to go from the lobby to my room. During this journey I would pass multiple nightclubs inhabited by drunken Russian sailors and Russia’s famous women of the night who liked to knock on my door at 2 in the morning to “party” YOWSAZ!
The Rossiya shut its doors the year I stayed there (2005) and is going to get bulldozed to make way for a massive mixed use development designed by Norman Foster. This development will probably be even worse then the Rossiya and is just another part of the second destruction of Moscow. This time it is by Russian oligarchs putting up incredibly gaudy developments which are nothing more then citadels for the elite classes to dance their nuts off to techno music and kill poor people for sport and buy ugly leather clothing. Ciao!
The Rossiya was largest hotel in Europe and was a neighborhood unto itself, housing night clubs, a post office, a health club, a 2,500 seat theater, and over 3,000 rooms. One of which was inhabited for a week by yours truly!
The Rossiya is built in the international style of Stalinist architecture, which basically means it substitutes stone with steal, glass, and marble. It still shares many similarities with the earlier examples Stalinist architecture such as monumentality and oppressive verticality to make it seem even more monumentally monumental. Basically Stalin thought monumental was fondemental. Is that even a real word? How come spell check does not even recognize it? I know it’s probably because I spelled it so poorly even spell check does not recognize it. You got me! I am a krappy speller!
The Rossiya was one of the creepiest places I have ever been. Probably less then half of the hotel was occupied when I stayed there (during the height of tourist season). The building has 4 entrances and is so large that it would take about 20 minutes to go from the lobby to my room. During this journey I would pass multiple nightclubs inhabited by drunken Russian sailors and Russia’s famous women of the night who liked to knock on my door at 2 in the morning to “party” YOWSAZ!
The Rossiya shut its doors the year I stayed there (2005) and is going to get bulldozed to make way for a massive mixed use development designed by Norman Foster. This development will probably be even worse then the Rossiya and is just another part of the second destruction of Moscow. This time it is by Russian oligarchs putting up incredibly gaudy developments which are nothing more then citadels for the elite classes to dance their nuts off to techno music and kill poor people for sport and buy ugly leather clothing. Ciao!
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