Hotel Leningradskaya
Polyakov, L.
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Alternative Title
Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel
Date
1954Description
Frontal view of the base; The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel is one of Moscow's Seven Sisters, skyscrapers built in the early 1950s in the Stalinist neoclassical style. Stalinist neoclassical architecture mixes the Russian neoclassical style with the style of American skyscrapers of the 1930s. A main element of Stalinist neoclassicism is its use of socialist realism art. The hotel, completed in 1954, was designed to be the finest luxury hotel in Moscow. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/22/2009)
Type of Work
hotel (public accommodation); skyscraperSubject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, Twentieth century
Rights
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