On October 25, 1917, the October armed uprising began in Moscow — better known as the October Revolution.
That October turned the Hotel Metropol into a fortress: a detachment of cadets defended the approaches to the Kremlin from there. They were eventually driven out by artillery fire, which shattered the hotel’s windows and damaged its structure.
In The Road to Calvary, Alexei Tolstoy wrote:
“The grand restaurant hall in the Metropol, damaged by the October shelling, was no longer in operation, but food and wine were still served in the private rooms… In those rooms they feasted like in Florence during the plague. Through acquaintances, locals — mostly actors — were let in through the back entrance, convinced that Moscow’s theaters wouldn’t last till the end of the season: for both theaters and actors — certain doom. The actors drank without restraint.”
📸 The photo shows the aftermath of those events for the Metropol Hotel building.
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