Novoslobodskaya Metro Station

Novoslobodskaya

This is one of the most beautiful stations of Moscow metro which reminds of underground palace. Bulky pylons trimmed with white Ural marble are decorated by colored stained glasses which creates — according to the idea of the author A.N. Dushkin — an impression of grotto. 

At the end of the hall there is a picture “Piece in the whole world” by a famous master, national USSR artist D. Korin. “When mosaic picture was ready — recalled later construction manager, engineer T.V. Fedorov-due to composition change it had acquired a new meaning. Suddenly we and Korin himself realized that the female character reminds of Mother of God. I witnessed as once female plant workers who came to wash the station before the opening stopped in front of the mosaic in awe, ready to kneel”.