Dvorets Sovetov, another in the first batch of stations, was named after Stalin’s planned Palace of the Soviets. The building – on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour – was to be the tallest structure in the world and topped with a 100-metre statue of Lenin. The station was decorated with marble from the cathedral, but plans for the palace were scuppered by the second world war and it was never built. The station was renamed Kropotkinskaya in the 1950s after anarchist Peter Kropotkin, who was born nearby. The cathedral was rebuilt after the collapse of the Soviet Union

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