Excursion to the metropol hotel. How to get to the Metropol Hotel

The Metropol Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Moscow, located in the very center of the city. Few people, except for the guests, know what beautiful interiors are hidden behind a beautiful Art Nouveau building. This Sunday we were lucky to get on a rather rare tour of the interiors of the Metropol Hotel, during which we saw several rooms, the interiors of the Metropol restaurants, walked along the beautiful corridors and halls. In general, touched a beautiful and frivolous life.

The Metropol Hotel is a masterpiece of Moscow Art Nouveau. In good weather, you can spend about an hour just looking at the beautiful majolica panels. But we left it for another time, and today the interiors of the historic hotel building were waiting for us.

So, getting on an excursion to the Metropol Hotel is quite difficult - you need to find an organizer of the excursion on the Internet (for example, we ended up in the Metropol with a group of Darina Fedorova-Zemlyanskaya). The group that is allowed into the hotel for a tour is usually not numerous - after all, a huge crowd of onlookers with cameras can seriously scare the guests of the Metropol. In general, we gathered a small group of 15 people.

As soon as we waited for the late participants of our tour, the organizer took us to the hotel building. Having handed over things to the wardrobe, we had a little time to take a breath and look around: the reception, sofas, antiques.

We were in the modern atrium of the Metropol Hotel, which was attached to the old building in the 90s, when the hotel received 5-star status. New requirements for hotels have led to the fact that the main entrance to the Metropol was moved, because there should be parking near the hotel. I must say that in this new beautiful hall, decorated in marble, everything was made antique: antique lamps and other interesting objects were installed around the perimeter of the hall.

When our guide appeared, we were already ready to travel around the hotel. After listening to a short lecture about the history of the building, we finally went to see the stream part of the Metropol.

The first thing we saw in the old building was an elevator of extraordinary beauty, decorated with glass stained-glass windows in the Art Nouveau style. A grand piano was installed in a small hall in front of the elevator, paintings hung on the walls, and there were comfortable and beautiful sofas.

The walls of this hall were decorated with real onyx, graphite from Mexico lay on the floor. In general, the hall already made it clear that this was not a simple hotel. This is a hotel-palace for the most high-ranking persons.

It was evening time (about 4 pm), so the restaurants were empty on Sunday. It was this fact that allowed us (oh miracle!) to get into the main restaurant of the Metropol.

When the doors to the central restaurant opened, everyone froze in mute amazement. For example, I had the feeling that I was on the Titanic. Before us was a hall - an atrium with a wide stained-glass dome.

The height of the ceiling was at least 5 meters, the size of the restaurant - the size of a ballroom! A fountain was installed in the center of the hall, and beautifully served tables around the perimeter.

There was an irresistible desire to put on a long beautiful dress and come here with a gallant gentleman for dinner. Tuxedo required! (joke)
The guide told us that in this restaurant guests have breakfast to the sound of a harp. By the way, anyone can come here for breakfast, its cost is a little more than 2 thousand rubles.

After such a "culture shock", we went up the stairs to the fourth floor to see another restaurant - Boyarsky.
Our group “hung out” with a camera literally everywhere. For example, a flight of stairs is decorated with a chic light panel. Well, why not stop here?
The Boyarsky restaurant differed in interior from the previous one.

In form, it resembles something between the ancient Russian chambers and the temple, as it is crowned with a round ceiling. The guide told us that the restaurant appeared here not so long ago, and earlier there was a hall for guests.

All the walls were painted in the Russian style. For example, the pattern reminded me of the Chambers of the Romanov Boyars. In the center of the hall, of course, was a Russian bear, antique, by the way.

From the Boyarsky restaurant we went to a beautiful artium to the stairs. Along the perimeter of the corridors one could see numerous portraits of celebrities who had ever stayed at the Metropol Hotel. Among them, for example, Sharon Stone, who did not allow herself to be photographed, but instead presented a photo with an autograph.

Having examined the restaurants, along the corridors covered with carpets, we set off from the holy of holies of the hotel to the “numbers”.
The rooms of the Metropol Hotel will give odds to any museum, where pieces of furniture and arts and crafts are exhibited. The hotel has a chic collection of antiques, and all this beauty belongs to the state, not the hotel. There are special lists according to which the control authorities will check the presence and safety of certain items. By the way, many items in the rooms even have alarms installed. As the guide said, she still cannot find the history of most of the antiques that are in the Metropolis. In the 20s of the revolutionary years, many "treasures" were stolen from the hotel, then the losses were made up partly from the fund of the Savoy Hotel, partly from numerous noble estates.

It is worth noting that the hotel has unusually wide corridors. On the most expensive floor in the corridor you can see antique furniture made of valuable Karelian birch, stucco molding, and chic chandeliers.

Here is another corner for guests - right in front of the stairs.

During the tour, we were shown several junior suites, suites, and even a presidential suite, which was under restoration.

The suite chosen by the newlyweds

One of the first we were shown a very beautiful room, decorated in blue tones. Luxurious bed and cherubs at the entrance - probably why this room is so popular with honeymooners.

Legends and stories can be told about each item in the room. There are even alarms hanging on antique objects and paintings.

Room with antique furniture

The guide showed us another room where Sharon Stone is staying. Its main feature is the presence of numerous antiques: an inlaid table, figurines, a chest of drawers.

The guide drew our attention to an unusual sculpture of a girl with balloons in her hands. She had male heads at her feet, which they tried to catch with their mouths. The most interesting thing is that no one still knows what this sculpture means? One of the famous guests of the Metropolis suggested that this sculpture is dedicated to the first feminist.

And this is what the bedroom of this room looks like.

The guide also showed us the room where the famous Vertinsky once lived.

When Anastasia Vertinskaya was born, it was decided to baptize her. A priest was invited into the room, and when they opened the door after the end of the baptism, they saw a crowd of eavesdropping people in the corridor: from guests to staff. Still, the godless time of communism, and here such strange sounds are heard from the room. The room is more modest - but also very beautiful. Antique mahogany furniture, natural silk walls.

Shall we go to the bathroom? Bathrooms in the Metropol look about the same. equally modest.

The presidential suite was simply luxurious! With an office and a beautiful view from the windows. This is a very large room for the Metropol - about 60 meters.

A particularly valuable exhibit (I can’t just call it furniture) is the Venetian armchair - it’s the right place for it to be in a museum.

Since life in the hotel did not stop when we came here, that is, the hotel lived its daily life, some rooms were not shown to us. These include conference rooms named after our famous writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy. These names are not memorial - these are modern names, earlier the halls were called according to the style in which they are made.

Near the end of the tour of the Metropolis, we came to a beautiful staircase, which, however, was quite narrow compared to the spacious corridors of the Metropolis. As it turned out, more budget hotel rooms start next.

There were a lot of impressions from visiting the hotel! I had the feeling that we were on a tour of the museum, but not in the hotel. You understand, antiques, small areas of rooms, a specific smell, as a result of this - this is in no way associated with a modern hotel. If you ever see that there is an opportunity to visit a tour of the interiors of the Metropolis - be sure to buy a ticket.

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Street of capital millionaires - Nikolskaya, former Tsarskaya street. The oldest street in Moscow and its name is also the oldest - it is 600 years old! It was along this street that the sovereign's departures from the Kremlin were made, it was built up with towers of noble boyars and tsar's associates, and even Nikolskaya Street was paved "royally" - over the logs of an ordinary pavement they laid a flooring of planed boards for the softness of the course of crowned carriages.The boyars Saltykovs and Sheremetevs, the princes Vorotynsky, Buynosov-Rostovsky, Khovansky, Trubetskoy lived here ... Times change, owners of houses and fashionable shops change, one thing remains unchanged: the prestige and high cost of every centimeter of the "royal" Nikolskaya street and surrounding lanes. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the luxurious pedestrian Nikolskaya Street turned into the main spontaneous fan zone for fans from all over the world, and became a real personification and hospitable "hostess" of Moscow.
A stone's throw from Nikolskaya, you will find an incredible surprise and a bonus of our trip - a warm welcome at the most luxurious and famous Moscow hotel "Metropol". Here we will have a unique opportunity to feel like a millionaire and find out what real chic and luxury of a five-star service is. Metropol is the most famous "luxury" hotel, built by the great Russian philanthropist Savva Mamontov at the end of the 19th century. It is unlikely that so many events unfolded within the walls of any other institution in the capital, because Fyodor Chaliapin sang under the glass vaults of the restaurant, and Stalin shook hands with Mao! You can touch the secrets of the famous hotelduring a fascinating excursion accompanied by the Metropol historian Ekaterina Egorova. You will admire the chic rooms*, furnished with incredible luxury and splendor, in which world celebrities once lived. The main decoration and pride of the hotel is not only the rarest antique rarities, pieces of furniture, paintings, old vases, but an indescribable atmosphere of good quality, respectability, wealth in the best sense of the word.Welcome compliment from the hotel - a glass of the famous Prosecco* sparkling wine as a gift(for adults) and a small but incredibly tasty dessert.
And yet, only here you can buy a rare book about the history of the Metropol and the biographies of its distinguished guests - "Metropol - a Moscow legend."
Wonderful Moscow "luxury" weekend - luxurious and very informative!

Visited the Metropol Hotel for sightseeing purposes. Metropol has already 5 stars. It was built in 1899-1905 on the initiative of Savva Mamontov. The history of the hotel, the list of celebrities who stayed there, etc. can be read on Wiki, and I will talk about how convenient the Metropol Hotel seemed to me from the point of view of the guest. During the tour, we walked through several floors of the Metropol Hotel, took a ride in the elevator, visited restaurant halls and several halls. Any hotel starts with Reception. Metropolitan is no exception. This is what the reception hall looks like.

We enter the Metropol from the side, from the Theater Square. The main entrance is located on Teatralnyy proezd and is closed for entry. We were told that on special occasions it was opened.
Photos of the front entrance will be a little later.

Having walked a little forward, we stop and admire the kissing figurines:

There is an elevator right in front of us.


However, we will not go straight to the elevator. Let's take a look at the first floor. We turned left from the elevator and came to the place where the main entrance is located. Now there is such an installation with champagne:


As well as a couple of adorable dogs:

On the ceiling, as expected stucco. Yes, at the beginning of the 20th century, the ceilings were decorated with either stucco or painting. The Metropolis has both.


This picture is painted on the ceiling. European restaurant.


Just imagine: they ate, drank, looked at the ceiling, and there is a whole work of art. We examine, admire, photograph, post on Twi or Instagram. Romance!

You can play the piano if you want.

Having examined the restaurant (Unfortunately we were not fed), we went to the third floor. Could you take the elevator

Or up the stairs. Along stained glass windows

The elevator is on the left. stained glass right

Here is the third floor:

and we go along the corridor to room 3305. Along the way we meet such nice little tables and chairs and sofas:


If desired, these very chairs and sofas can be accommodated. It's just that you can't smoke. The sign warns of this. And here is the 3305th number. This is the first issue of the Metropol in which we looked. Luxury room.


The rooms in the Metropol are different. Each suite is different. This two-room. In the first room there is a table with chairs, and in the second - a bed.

In the wardrobe, in addition to hangers, there is also an umbrella

They are not given to guests, but only allowed to use. Next number 3306

It differs from the previous furniture. From the memory in this issue was this lamp:

and carved table leg

Bedroom:

And here is the most interesting - the toilet room:

To be honest, I expected more from the bathroom. A jacuzzi or a shower cabin with hydromassage and a radio, in my opinion, would decorate the Metropol bathroom much better. Looking ahead, I’ll say that this is a typical Metropol bathroom. Some rooms have saunas that can accommodate a couple of people. But the toilet, bathtub, bidet sink are the same as in the photo. And we went to inspect room 3317. There is a table with a sofa:

bedroom

TV table

Presidential number 3364.
When the door is opened, the bell rings:

main room

Living room. Here you can, say, paint a bullet

Candelabra electric

bedroom


There is water next to the lamp.

bathroom

Piano! What kind of presidential number is this without a piano?!


View of the bathroom:


In the frame is a man with a phenomenal skill to get into the frame at the most inopportune time. Note. Here is also the back of this man

And now let's go to the most, perhaps, the most elegant room of the Metropol Hotel - 2264. It is located on the second floor.
The room is also Presidential. (There are two presidential suites in the Metropol. And we visited both.) If the first presidential suite was larger, then the furnishings here are more refined. There is a real Venetian chair:

Inconvenient. But we love him not for this :) Armrests close-up:

Sofa with lions:

The sofa is also uncomfortable. And creaky. But with lions and beautiful! Lions close up:

Ceiling:

Clock cabinet

Bedroom:

Vase in the corner of the bedroom

Bathroom. What's great - the entrance to the bathroom directly from the bedroom. Those. got out of the shower, dive under the covers and immediately bang. You don't have to go through the whole room. And in the morning it is also convenient - the toilet is within walking distance. If it wasn't taken of course. However, this is provided. The room also has a second toilet. He's really not interesting at all. Toilet and sink.

And there is also a sauna for a couple of people:

We leave the bathroom and go back to the bedroom. Ladies in peignoirs are painted on the walls.

For the bedroom - the most it. Not in fur coats to depict them. Right?

By the way, in the living room, in addition to the sofa with lions and the Venetian armchair, there is also a nice writing table with green cloth.

and a couple of chairs

And in this suite there is another small room. Possibly to wait.

We leave the Presidential room and go to the second Boyarsky restaurant. We go down the corridor along a row of antique chairs.

These chairs are more comfortable than the Venetian chair.
The Boyarsky Hall was not waiting for us at the parade. It was being prepared for the evening event.
This is not the Boyarsky Hall yet. This is the banquet room.


And here is the Boyarsky Hall:

Slightly to the left:

Slightly to the right:


Dome:

Entrance to the balcony from which I photographed the hall:


We leave the Boyarsky restaurant and see the Chekhov Hall

There are some pretty stained glass windows there:


Unfortunately, a man climbed into the frame from the right. So the frame had to be cut. We are happy for this person.
Chandelier and ceiling pattern:

Window opening handle:

There was nothing else of interest in the hall. And our tour came to an end. Going down the pretty stairs

To the first floor. These chairs are just opposite the Reception

As a result, Metropol made a double impression on me. On the one hand, this is real antique furniture, pretty vases, dishes, stucco, curtains. This is a hotel with history and a long list of famous guests. On the other hand, these are quite ordinary bathrooms, the absence of air conditioners (can you imagine what it is like there on a hot summer day? I can’t imagine. Maybe it’s cool there, or maybe not). In addition, in the rooms there is a feeling that you are in some special museum. Where you can sit in old armchairs, sleep on old beds, eat from old dishes and put flowers in a vase that is over a hundred years old. Quite an interesting feeling. I still haven't decided if I like it or not.

This concludes my story about the Metropol Hotel and expresses my gratitude to all the people who made this tour possible.

Our project also invites you to "go to the rooms" and visit one of the most luxurious hotels in the capital - the legendary Metropol Hotel. On this tour, you will get acquainted with more than 100 years of history of this luxurious building, its unique architecture, interior and exterior decoration, luxurious rooms and halls with antique furniture and interior items, as well as the legendary restaurant under a colorful glass dome!
In the program of excursions around and inside the Metropol:

* The founder and first builder of the Metropol is the famous merchant, philanthropist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov.

Why did Savva Mamontov want to build such a hotel, what prevented him and who completed it later in the current form familiar to us. Why the fire broke out in December 1901 and what the Moscow newspapers wrote about it. Why did this place become almost a “personal office” for another famous Savva?

* Where can you see the first urban works of the famous sculptor N. Andreev, which the former Muscovites spoke of as “shame and disgrace”.

What architects and artists worked on the construction of the hotel and why was the Metropol dubbed the Tower of Babel in the early 20th century? What stood on this site before, where does the Neglinka River flow underground and which windows of the hotel look at the only historical remnant of the Kitaigorod wall?

* What are the main events that took place in the Metropol who liked to stay in this hotel and what the hotel turned into after the October Revolution.

* Luxurious halls, corridors, stairs, rooms, a restaurant and its halls in the prism of the times of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Inside the hotel, the tour is conducted by its oldest employee, who met and accompanied many eminent guests in the Metropol. From the first mouth, he will tell everyone exclusive stories from the life of the Metropol, show his bins - halls, corridors, stairs, restaurant. During the tour, one or two hotel rooms will be shown, which will be free from guests.

We love hotels. And we love hotels with history. And especially - stories about hotels with history. Therefore, not taking the opportunity to visit the famous Moscow Metropol with a guided tour, past the elegant building of which they ran many times, was considered inhumane in relation to their own curiosity.

It was here that Berlioz and Bosoy insistently suggested that Woland move in, our parents used to go to the hotel restaurant of the same name as one of the most fashionable places in the Soviet capital, and foreigners, world stars, and, of course, prima and soloists during the tour on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Few people know about excursions to one of the oldest hotels in Moscow. On Thursdays and Saturdays, as groups form, they are led by Metropol historian and art critic Ekaterina Egorova. Our group was quite large, about twenty people, you can see and hear perfectly, but to take a purely interior photo is already a problem. But we did it.

The tour of one of the most striking historical and architectural monuments of Moscow Art Nouveau begins from the former main entrance overlooking the Theater Square. Here, behind the front doors between two marble she-wolves, we are told about how the glorious history of the Metropol began. In place of the old saunas, Savva Mamontov, a philanthropist and patron of new (at that time) art, planned to build ... a grandiose cultural and entertainment complex that would accommodate restaurants, art galleries, a theater, a hotel part, and even a sports center with a skating rink. In 1899, a competition was announced, and among the architectural works presented, Mamontov liked the project of William Walcott. True, some time later Mamontov was accused of embezzlement, and the building passed to the new owners, who decided to invite architects Lev Kekushev and Nikolai Shevyakov to finalize the project and continue building the building now as a luxury hotel. The hotel was opened in 1901. However, in the same year there was a severe fire that required significant reconstruction of the building. And only in 1905 the second birth of the Metropol took place - its grand opening.

So we find out the age of the she-wolves guarding the former front entrance - 110 years. We peer at the bas-relief on the ceiling, depicting a man and a woman, trying to unravel its symbolism.

The hall made of Belgian and Swiss marble was designed by the same workshop that created the front interiors of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. Here is a cozy bar "Chaliapin", where the excursion is paid for, and after its completion a glass of champagne or fruit drink is offered.

From the entrance we move to the elevator lobby. The floor is no longer Swiss marble, but still granite, with history. The walls are lined with onyx. And here we discover what the Metropol is especially good for: here you can not only admire the murals, mosaics and stucco work done by famous artists, come within arm’s reach of ancient sculptures, paintings and vases from different eras, but also sit on sofas , armchairs and chairs, which are at least the same age as those she-wolves at the entrance. The antiques serving here as intended were transferred to the Metropol from the treasuries of the Gokhran. It is interesting that Ekaterina Egorova, talking about the hotel, speaks in the first person: “they stayed at our place”, “we were transferred”, “we kept it”, reducing the pathos of a status profitable establishment to a national treasure and her especially beloved Moscow house.

The frame of the elevator shaft with Art Nouveau floral mosaics has been preserved on all floors, although the cabins themselves have, of course, been replaced with modern ones. They say that it was this elevator lobby that Kazimir Malevich depicted in one of his early paintings.

The group then ascends to the fourth floor, splitting between the new freight elevators and the staircase that winds around the old elevator shaft. There are stained-glass windows in the windows, sculptures on the pedestals, paintings on the ceiling. Already here the multi-style interior of the modernist Metropol is clearly manifested. Then Ekaterina leads us to the atrium, from where wide corridors lead to the rooms and numerous halls of the hotel.

On the walls of the atrium are photographs of famous guests, through which it is so easy to trace the rapid history of the Metropol, and at the same time the whole country. The hotel was in the center of revolutionary events. After 1917, the Bolsheviks settled here: the leaders of the People's Commissariat lived in the rooms, the meetings of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee were held in the halls, Sverdlov arranged a reception room for himself in one of the most popular rooms at that time, Chicherin placed his People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in the hotel - the sleek "Metropol" became famous as the Second House of Soviets (First - "National"). Chaliapin, Vrubel, Ryabushinsky, Komissarzhevskaya, Bryusov and Bunin retreat for a while before the portraits of Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Sverdlov - and again they are guests of a luxurious hotel: Mandelstam, Mariengof, Kuprin, Barbusse, Prokofiev, Vertinsky lived here, Brecht, Shaw stayed , Steinbeck ... you can’t remember everyone - in the late 20s, the Metropol again becomes a first-class hotel. True, the process of eviction of apartments dragged on for several decades: the last one was vacated only in 1964.

A gallery of portraits of famous guests and guests wraps around the walls of the atrium on all floors. By the way, the columns at the corners of the railing on each floor are decorated in their own way: somewhere they are crowned with a golden fanged pan, somewhere - a gentle white-faced maiden. A characteristic feature of the Art Nouveau era - uniqueness, originality of decoration - can also be traced in the number of rooms: 390 rooms - and all of them are different in layout and interior decoration.

In 1986, the dilapidated hotel was closed (together with the country) for restructuring, that is, restoration. The period of new history for both began in 1991.

The group continues on to the Boyarsky Hall, whose pseudo-Old Russian coloring fades the modernist spirit of the Metropol. Under the dome vaults, painted with patterns in the boyar style (Chekhonin, Kuznetsov) and decorated with imitation of ancient Russian mosaics and castings, marvelous acoustics. They say that a huge crystal chandelier of complex shape and weighing a ton plays a certain role in this. The restorers had to work hard here: the hundred-year-old walls were repainted many times - Chekhonin's paintings were hidden under nine layers of paint!

The carved balcony and the antique bear in the corner are also referred to Ancient Russia. The scarecrow donated to Metropol to maintain the Russian tradition of placing stuffed animals in restaurants with national cuisine is about a hundred years old. It once stood in the Savoy and was supposedly described by Steinbeck in the Russian Diary.

And then, finally, we go down to the floor below, we pass through an elegant hall with the already familiar antiques - armchairs with carved swans, a table with nymphs, a picture with a bay at night, an ornate gilded mirror, stucco, columns, candelabra ... It is here that we are told about about how each of the almost 800 antique items returned or transferred for temporary storage from the state reserves of the Metropol is checked and protected: they filled a unique architectural object with completely unique content.

Along a wide corridor lined with red and green carpets along the paintings and stucco on its walls, Ekaterina leads us to inspect the "luxury", as the guide affectionately calls room 3305 overlooking the Theater Square. Pierre Cardin, Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu stayed in a bright, cream-lilac striped room ...

An alcove bed, a wood-painted ceiling: clouds in the blue sky, and two green parrots slyly peeking out of the wooden frame. We believe the French should have appreciated the artist's sense of humor.

The beauty collected to the delight of rich guests is spoiled only by surprisingly dirty windows. Ekaterina explains that cleaning windows is a big problem for the hotel, which only climbers can handle. And soon they will probably come to us.

On the way to the next suite, we are told about some of the guests: the infamous Lee Harvey Oswald lived in this suite, here is Vladimir Pozner with his family after returning to the country; pets are not allowed in the Metropol, but here, as an exception, Patricia Kaas lived with her naked dog, the same number Diana Vishneva chooses for herself on every visit with tours to the Bolshoi. “We had everything,” Ekaterina adds, not without reason.

The second suite I examined was baroque gold with pale blue rims. 18th-century furniture, silk wallpapers, a portrait of a maiden in blue, a view of Theater Square.

This number is loved by newlyweds and European princesses visiting Moscow, and even, they say, queens, like the then-ruling Spanish Sophia and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

In the end, the guide leaves the “sweetest” – one of the two presidential suites, which also has something to add to the multi-layered and difficult history of the Russian Metropol.

Kim Jong Il, Marlene Dietrich, Jacques Chirac, Placido Domingo, Paul Mauriat, Elton John and Michael Jackson lived in room 3364... Surely the list of honored guests would have stretched for a long time, but the name of the king of pop music causes a special revival in the group, and Ekaterina recalls, how difficult it was to ensure safety for Jackson during the entrances and exits from the hotel, how the Metropol was once again besieged - now no longer revolutionaries - by the singer's fans in 1993, how he wished to live by all means with a view of the Lubyanka.

At the end of the hour, we again went down to the elevator lobby on the first floor and went into the hall of the Metropol restaurant, famous throughout Moscow. It was here that Chaliapin sang, Lenin and Trotsky spoke, meetings of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee were held (and after the meetings the hall turned into a dining room); Styopa Likhodeev went here on the eve of the most memorable morning of his life.

Now breakfasts are served here in the mornings (from 7:30 to 10:00) for guests and people from the street. Approximately 2 thousand rubles per person for a morning buffet and the opportunity to drink a cup of coffee to the sounds of a live harp in a magnificent neoclassical hall of the 1910s, which many prominent figures of art and architecture of the early 20th century had a hand in, for example: the ceilings of the hall were designed by the famous Shukhov engineer.

You can consolidate what you have learned at the starting point of the tour - in the pretty Shalyapin bar with a glass of champagne and a discussion of what you see.

At first glance, the Metropol, many-sided and contradictory, seems to be a collection of disparate objects framed by a kind of Russian Art Nouveau. But this solid spy of a whole century of our complex history is not only a unique monument of architecture and history, a museum-repository of a rich artistic heritage for the elite (everyone can see Vrubel's majolica panel on the facade, but not everyone can appreciate the interior paintings based on the sketches of Vasnetsov and Korovin) , but also a clear bearer of a largely contradictory national spirit and character: refined and solid, businesslike and majestic, pro-Western and Great Russian, patriarchal and cosmopolitan, integral and many-sided. Here it is, "Metropol" from the inside.

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