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.
阿列克謝•蘇契舍夫(Alexey Shchusev)曾是前蘇聯時代最爲知名的建築大師，他設計的作品衆多，從威尼斯雙年展(Venice Biennale)的俄羅斯展廳到莫斯科紅場(Red Square)的列寧墓。但他設計的莫斯科酒店卻不盡如人意。坊間的說法是史達林(Stalin)曾看過酒店正面的兩種設計圖樣，並在不知情的情況下把兩種方案都批准了，但當時沒人膽敢進一步徵求史達林意見，於是決定把這兩種正面圖樣都付之實施，建成了緊挨著的建築面。據稱弗蘭克•勞埃德•賴特（Frank Lloyd Wright，他妻子曾在莫斯科長大）1937年參加全蘇建築師大會(First All-Union Congress of Soviet Architects)時，曾把它貶爲自己平生見過的最醜陋建築。