Stalin’s golden cage

March 2, 2008

In 1931 was opened in the very center of Moscow the biggest and most modern residential complex in Europe. Fully equipped with a wealth of facilities and services, one may say it was a city within the city. Its exclusive apartments were addressed to the most outstanding members of the soviet elite. But what began as a dream turned into a nightmare: in just a few years a third of its residents came to a bad end because of Stalin’s purges, so the building became a symbol of that dark period of repression.

Current view of the building