One architect, three eras, countless masterpieces. Aleksei Shchusev is a…
One architect, three eras, countless masterpieces. Aleksei Shchusev is a rare phenomenon in architecture—equally brilliant in Imperial Russia, early Soviet avant-garde, and Stalinist monumentalism. His career reads like a mirror of Russia’s turbulent 20th century, and yet, through it all, his language was architecture—bold, layered, and deeply rooted in tradition. In the early 1900s, he…