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The metro in Moscow is really amazing... some stations look like a gallery









and while waiting for the trains, live continues below as above ground: some on their own world, some curious, some observing ... even statues:



Thanks for looking! :-)

luis
 
Wow indeed - talk about putting other major cities to shame!
All great shots, but i loved that last one.

If you waited long enough, you could probably get some funny effects with those statues, as people stop and lean on them with newspapers etc. :-D

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Carl

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if you didn't say it , i couldn't imagine that those shots were about the metro !!! Really a beautiful metro, and nice picture as well !!!

Gianluca
 
Beautifully shot Luis. :D Perhaps the well illustrated sentiment of bringing at least some of the splendour of the Romanoff’s to the everyday person in Moscow, the appreciation of which is equally well displayed in the lack of vandalism or damage, would have been a wiser long term direction and goal for the Soviets.

More importantly, it still stands as a reminder that this course may still be worth pursuing. Certainly we never saw anything of this ilk in all the time following the French revolution in France, where people were not only treated to but trusted with the opulence of the Bourbons in their everyday lives.

Revolutions all to often throw the baby out with the bath water.

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How right you with your comments!

I was amazed in Moscow at the respect people had for their patrimony... they love art in every expression!

One of the nights I was there, I was lucky enough to be able to go the Bolshoi (spartacus) and from the simple employee in the metro ticket office to the taxi driver, they all spoke of the beauty of the ballet...

thanks for viewing!
 
where is the ceiling of "komsomolskaya" and art deco pillars of "mayakovskaya"? you haven't covered all bases :P
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I've probably looked at this series four times now. I can't believe the funds allocated to keep up this metro. Beautiful place clearly and a nice series to show those of us who won't make it a glance of life there.

Thanks for these.
 
Irakly is correct... there is much, much more to do justice to the amazing public art

Here are "frescos" part painted part with tiny coloured stones



There are also beautiful scenes of ancient war times



Beautiful lamps



Wonderful "alleys" :-)





and deco galleries (not a good picture... sorry...)

 
I don't for a minute suggest it isn't worth it. I wish we could see more art like this.

Iteresting that it does profit. Again beautiful place.
 
your photographs did some justice to this extraordinary & vast system

all are excellent and particularly for the many difficulties shooting in a subway system

the care given this system speaks eloquently about the Russian attitude about its citizens and their attitude about their society

I suppose you could have shown something more edgy if you wished, but I doubt anything in the Moscow Metro could match the funkiness of the NYC system or better yet the one in Philadelphia, which may be the grungiest city rail system I have ever seen

my favorite of these is the second of the first group, with its wonderful masses going up the staircases & the concert piano player in the colorful roundel, though I found all your offerings here superb

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thanks for your comments

I only used the "central" stations (4/5 stations away from the center) but to be honest a great surprise what that they all looked cared, clean and people respected them... just like in the streets... clean... I was amazed
 
Luis, I keep coming to your thread but don't find anything "smart"or "constructive" to say!... I just wanted you to know that I like your shots very much. #1 is my favorite!... Moscow's metro is very famous and I have seen many great shots of it. Yours are among them!... I also really like your colors very much!

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in the thirties, long after the last Czar had become an historical footnote, and was an example of socialist realism. That's Lenin, not Alexander III! The very capable leader of the project was Nikita Krushchev who went on to help reverse the situation at Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 and even to meet Richard Nixon in a kitchen later.

The Romanov's added very little infrastructure to the country unless you count palaces. Even the train system was shabby. The subway was designed to be functional as well as to add beauty that could be appreciated by the weary traveler. Each of the original stations had a special theme and, if I remember correctly, the Komsomol station was one of the best.
 
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