Chapter 141: The Underground Art Palace
The electric train slowly entered the city of Moscow, looking out from the window, there are many high-rise buildings by the railway, most of them are tall and beautiful European-style buildings, the streets are very wide, there are many cars on the road, and most of them are European cars, the pedestrians on the streets are all in a hurry, and the people in the Far East cities are dressed in a lot of foreign fashion. Yesterday, I took Zhang Laosan's car, took the ring road of Moscow, did not pass through the city center, and the ant market is not in the center of Moscow, and the area around the market is relatively empty, so yesterday I did not feel the atmosphere of an international metropolis, but I felt the huge size of Moscow on the plane. Looking out the window, I couldn't help but sigh: "Moscow is so prosperous, a real cosmopolitan city, Novosibirsk is almost like a countryside compared to Moscow." Hearing my emotion, Sveta smiled mischievously, "Peng, then you stay in the real cosmopolitan city and don't go back to the countryside." ”
The Yaraslavl railway station is a tall and beautiful building with a steeple tower on the right hand and a grand dome and gate in the middle, making the whole station look less like a train station and more like a castle. Yaraslavl railway station is the largest, oldest and most beautiful railway station in Moscow, and international trains depart from here. Diagonally opposite the Yaraslavl railway station are the Kazan and Lenin railway stations. I was amazed to see that there were three railway stations on one street, and Moscow was the world's number one megacity.
We got our international train tickets at Yaraslavl railway station and we were ready to take the metro to Red Square. When I walked out of the train station, I saw two police cars on the side of the road, and several Amon with ********** and steel helmets standing on the side of the road. Two Caucasian men stood next to the police car, lying on their stomachs with their hands raised and being examined by the police. I glanced at Sveta and whispered to her: "Is it that the Moscow police are very strict about these Caucasians?" Sveta nodded and said: "Caucasians have always been very strict, but looking at the situation today, something should have happened, usually passports are checked." Vera said to the side, "Sveta, didn't you watch the morning news?" There was a shootout in this area last night, it seems that Caucasian gangs and Russian gangs grabbed territory, and then the police came out, and they had a shootout with the police. I couldn't help but sigh when I heard it, and Brother Chao laughed at me on the side, "Dapeng, it's still an international metropolis, well, living here will have unexpected surprises every day." I pouted and said, "It's too much to be afraid of." Vera said: "I lived in Moscow before my divorce, and I didn't go out at night, and there were often shootouts like this, where gangs fought for territory. "I've heard about the poor social order in Moscow before, but now I've really felt it.
Walking to the entrance of the subway station, Brother Chao and I were stopped by a policeman with a submachine gun, "Hello! Please show your passport. We handed him the passport and ticket, and when he checked it, he asked Sveta and Vera, who were standing next to us, "Hello two ladies! Are these ******** citizens with you? Sveta nodded and replied, "Hello! They are our fiancés. The police heard Sveta say this, returned our passports, and waved us into the subway station.
When I was waiting for Sveta to queue up to buy a subway ticket, I said to Brother Chao: "This Moscow is really three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, just in this moment, we have all been checked twice, if there is no Sveta and Vera to follow, it will be impossible to lose 200,000 rubles." Brother Chao pondered for a moment and said: "This is Moscow, I am thinking today, does our company need to come to Moscow for development?" What do you think? I thought for a while and replied: "Brother Chao, I don't think it is suitable for our company to come to Moscow for development." Brother Chao asked me, "Why do you think so?" Tell me your reasoning. I said, "We visited a big ant market yesterday, we won't be like those bad guys, we will ship them to the market for wholesale, right?" If we ship the goods and wholesale them to these unfortunate people in the market, we are a trading company, we do not have our own factory, nor do we have our own products, we have to go to the factory to buy, so we have no price advantage. Now that Zhejiang people have their own batch buildings, we can't compete with them at all. In addition, there should be no factories in Moscow, and we cannot import those industrial raw materials into Moscow. So our advantage is still in an industrial city like Novosibirsk. Brother Chao nodded approvingly, "Dapeng, your analysis is very correct, I think so too." There are a lot of big conglomerates in Moscow, but we can't get in touch with them, and there are some trades that we can't do, and we can still do something in Novosibirsk, but we can't do anything in Moscow. ”
After Sveta bought his metro ticket, we entered the metro station, where I was fascinated by the beautiful marble art statues, reliefs, glass mosaics, and mosaics on the top of the platform, which represented the artist's mastery, and the soft light from the ceiling with a beautiful chandelier. At this point, I didn't feel like I was in a subway station, but like I was in an underground art palace. Sveta told me that we are now in the Komsomol subway station on the subway ring line, the subway ring line is the first subway line in Moscow, and it is also the most characteristic and beautiful subway line, each subway station on the ring line is designed by famous domestic architects, each with its own unique style, the architectural pattern is also different, the architectural shapes are different gorgeous and elegant, and each station is an art museum. The Komsomol metro station, where we are now, is the most famous in the entire metro system in Moscow, and it is located in the busiest transport hub in Moscow - Komsomolskaya Square, which is a hub to Moscow and the rest of Russia. After listening to Sveta's introduction, I thought to myself, no wonder the Russian nation is a very artistic people, and even the train and subway stations are built like palaces.
We waited for a few minutes and the subway came in, which was not the rush hour for commuting and there were not many passengers in the subway. The people in the carriage, both standing and sitting, were quietly reading, and the Russians were really a people who liked to read. We sat down with empty seats, and Chaoge asked Sveta: "Why did Moscow build the subway in the first place, and first built the ring line?" Sveta spread his hands and said, "This question really stumped me, it was Stalin who ordered the construction of the Moscow Metro, and I'm afraid I have to ask Stalin to know this." Vera, who was holding Brother Chao's arm, smiled and said, "Vanya, let me tell you why Moscow built the subway first and first built the Ring Line, right?" It is said that the Moscow Metro Circle Line came from the bottom of Stalin's teacup. Hearing Vera say this, not only me and Brother Chao, but even Sveta followed along, Vera said a little proudly: "The erudite Sveta doesn't know this story, let me tell you, when Moscow was going to build a subway line, the engineer reported the subway map to Stalin, Stalin drank coffee while looking at the map, and put the cup on the map after drinking." When the instructions came down, the engineer found that there was an extra circle on the map, so there was the current subway loop. "We all laughed when we heard it, and maybe that's the kind of Russian humor that is unique. "Although this is a little humor, after World War II, a large part of the city of Moscow was built according to Stalin's wishes, and the square metro station still has those famous Stalin-style buildings. ”