Moscow Metro – a Socialist Realist Art Gallery
Ploshchad Revolyutsii to Okhotny Ryad
The long corridor between the two stations is remarkable not just for the imagery that still exists but for the great number of empty spaces that, at one time, would have included sculptures and representations of the Soviet Union’s struggle to build Socialism.
Presented here is an introduction to this corridor used by thousands of people everyday, few of whom will take notice of the beauty and the work that went into the construction of the system dating from the mid-1930s. In what that remains there’s an emphasis on imagery from the Great Patriotic War.