🏛 Metropol Hotel

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A 1905 Art Nouveau hotel with mosaics, a facade and a stained-glass dome over the restaurant.

The hotel was conceived by Savva Mamontov, together with a huge opera house that was later dropped.
In 1899 Mamontov was arrested in a railway case, and the building was finished without him.
The project was started by William Walcot, and Lev Kekushev was the chief architect of the construction.
In December 1901 the nearly finished building burned for 41.5 hours: the fire started from the chimney of the samovar room.
The facades have 23 ceramic panels and a majolica inscription with words by Friedrich Nietzsche.
In 1918 the Metropol became the "Second House of Soviets": the All-Russian Central Executive Committee met in the former restaurant, and Lenin and Trotsky spoke there.

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