Moscow metro: Architectural guide is a unique guidebook to the "underground palaces" of Russian capital, their history, arrangement and decor. The photographs shot for the occasion by photography artist Alexei Naroditsky and the texts by art historian and culturologist Evgenia Gershkovich expanding on the main styles of Moscow metro, from art deco to high tech, introduce the most beautiful and original stations of each metro line. The cross-cutting themes of the guidebook are the history of the engineering discoveries, losses and restotations, the avant garde and modernist creative exploration, the struggle against the personality cult of Iosif Stalin, the unique mosaic and painting techniques.

soft cover, 22 х 14 cm

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