Alexey Shchusev was one of the most distinguished architects of the Soviet era, a designer of projects from the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale to Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square. His design for the Hotel Moskva, however, was less successful. Legend has it that Stalin was shown alternative façades and unwittingly approved both. No one had the courage to press the question, so they built the two adjacent to one another. Attending the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Architects in 1937, Frank Lloyd Wright (whose wife had grown up in Moscow) reportedly condemned it as the ugliest building he had ever seen.
阿列克谢•苏契舍夫(Alexey Shchusev)曾是前苏联时代最为知名的建筑大师，他设计的作品众多，从威尼斯双年展(Venice Biennale)的俄罗斯展厅到莫斯科红场(Red Square)的列宁墓。但他设计的莫斯科酒店却不尽如人意。坊间的说法是斯大林(Stalin)曾看过酒店正面的两种设计图样，并在不知情的情况下把两种方案都批准了，但当时没人胆敢进一步征求斯大林意见，于是决定把这两种正面图样都付之实施，建成了紧挨着的建筑面。据称弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特（Frank Lloyd Wright，他妻子曾在莫斯科长大）1937年参加全苏建筑师大会(First All-Union Congress of Soviet Architects)时，曾把它贬为自己平生见过的最丑陋建筑。