Moskva HotelDo not disturb tells how the Moskva hotel, immortalised on millions of Stoli bottles, is being demolished and replaced by a replica. For some years a debate has raged in Moscow over the future of the 1,000-room Stalinist hotel featured on every bottle of Stolichnaya vodka and built in the early 30s by Alexei Shchusev, one of the Man of Steel's pet architects, and the man who designed Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square. Many have wanted it demolished; now, a solution has been found. The old hotel is to be demolished and replaced by an exact replica. Funded by the Decorum Corporation, a little-known US- registered company, the new $350m hotel will be 49% owned by the city of Moscow. The remaining 51% stays with Decorum - a remarkable state of affairs.Posted by Paul at July 31, 2003 07:18 PM |
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What is Decorum Corporation? It is a company consisting of 2 people - one is my husband, another one is his friend, Aleksandr Zarubin, who owns 3 furniture shops in Moscow. Annual profit of Decorum is less than 30,000 a year. Decorum will invest 350 million into this project? Right now my husband and I are hardly pulling ends together and he is desperately trying to get out of this project and crelar out his name. |