MOSCOW. MAYAKOVSKY
"There are two monuments to Mayakovsky in Moscow: one — a statue which he, most probablly, would not like, and another — metro station which he – captivated in industrial – undoubtedly would be delighted with.
It is very beautiful station — with walls from steel arches where the steel, basically, left uncovered, painted only minimally. Once these arches have seemed to me as huge cuts for hands in a gigantic waistcoat. And in the next moment I already knew that this station represents.
Mayakovsky's steel jacket, - the imagination has told me. The same way he wore the yellow blouse of futurist he appears now in a steel jacket of the giant."
Yuri Olesha "Ni dnja bez strochki" ("No day without a line")
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Metro Station Mayakovskaya |