The Hotel Metropol is an Art Nouveau hotel built for Savva Mamontov and Petersburg Insurance. Work began in 1899, and the finished hotel, completed in 1907, differs greatly from William Walcot's original design. The article names Lev Kekushev and Walcot as architects. A fire destroyed the topped-out shell in 1901, and it was rebuilt in reinforced concrete.
The building has no reference to architectural orders and needs no supporting columns. It moves from a stone-faced ground-floor arcade to upper-floor windows without decorative frames. Mikhail Vrubel's Princess of Dreams mosaic panel decorates the facade, and the hotel has 365 rooms.
The Bolsheviks nationalized it in 1918. Finnish companies restored it between 1986 and 1991. It is the largest surviving Moscow hotel built before the 1917 Revolution.
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