The Seven Sisters, or ‘Stalin’s high-rises, are among Moscow’s best examples of Stalinist architecture, a term given to Soviet architecture under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Constructed between the mid-1940s and the early 1950s, these high-rises came to symbolize the new Moscow, which was perceived as a victorious city that had overcome the hardships of war and entered a peaceful new era. These giant structures became the attributes of a modern metropolitan city. The Seven Sisters include the main building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , hotels Ukraina and Leningradskaya, apartment buildings on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and Kudrinskaya Square and the administrative and residential complex near Red Gate Square.
Unfortunately, not every high-rise is easy to get into. This applies in particular to the MSU building and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but their exterior alone is worth examining. Even today, where skyscrapers are commonplace, the Seven Sisters are still unique in their grandeur, the opulence of their décor and their monumental stature.
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