The legend counts that the circular line of the Meter of Moscow originated from a cup of coffee. During a meeting to plan the meter of the city, the engineers presented to Stalin a map of the radial lines of the meter. While they were explaining the system to him, Satalin was drinking little coffee in silence. When it ended, the Russian leader put his cup of coffee on the planes of the engineers, and got up of the table without saying anything …
When the engineers raised the cup of coffee, they discovered the Stalin magic. A circular ring of brown color was defining the line that was missing to complete the tube of Moscow. From this day, the circular line of Moscow is of brown color.
You create or not the curious history, it is an impossible today to imagine the meter of Moscow without this circular line about the center of the city. The line continues the Garden Ring, in the south of the city, continuing up to the north, tuning in to all the interesting places of Moscow and all his stations. Nevertheless, like the rest of the meter, the circular line is not a simple transport way, but the whole monument to the nobility and the Soviet power.
One of the big stations of the circular line is the Kievskaya, in 1954, and it coincided with the Russian-Ukrainian unification of 300 years ago. It offers the whole spectacle of art, which is based on the friendship between the peoples. To be able to read the mosaics it is necessary to do from the escalator that takes us to the station. Do not get lost the portrait of a Lenin smiling at the end of the corridor.
The following stop of the line is Krasnopresnenskaya, a station dedicated to the revolutionary events that took place in this part of Moscow. It is covered with marble red and lined with down reliefs of terracotta, which show the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
Other one of the stops that you have to visit is Novoslobodskaya, one of the most impressive stops of the meter of Moscow, with a series of spectacular shop windows. The station ends in with a panel that represents a Soviet version of the Virgin and the Child.
Komsomolskaya is the best place to finish our trip for the Circular Line of the Meter of Moscow, since it represents the top of the empire of Stalin, with his classic exaggerated elements and exhuberantes. Nationalistic details resemble the orthodox churches, and Pedro and Catalina la Grande. Golden panels show the big victories of the Russian state, like the Soviet victory in the Second World war.
Without a doubt that Mosú has real works of art hidden in the Meter of the city.
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