🏛 Kazansky Station

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Shchusev's station with a tower modeled on Kazan's Syuyumbike, built from 1913 to 1940.

Until 1912 the station was called Ryazansky; it was renamed when the line reached Kazan.
The first train, to Kolomna, left Ryazansky Station on 20 July 1862.
Shchusev won the competition for the "gateway to the East" against Fyodor Shekhtel, the author of the neighboring Yaroslavsky Station.
Roerich, Benois, Kustodiev, Lanceray and Serebriakova took part in the interior design.
The restaurant is styled as a Moscow Baroque refectory with Lanceray's murals; Ilf and Petrov described it in "The Twelve Chairs".
Shchusev drew the bronze zodiac signs for the tower clock himself; the clock was started only in 1923.
The reconstruction after Shchusev's drawings, with the new Tsar's Tower, was finished in 1997, for Moscow's 850th anniversary.