A private railway company opened the first station on August 18, 1862. Michail Lewestam designed the original brick building, a simple classicist form that resembled an ordinary administration building. Lew Kekushev added a platform in 1900.
Fyodor Schechtel, whom the article calls a renowned Art Nouveau architect, led a reconstruction from 1902 to 1904. Inaugurated on December 19, 1904, it drew on traditional Moscow styles and the architecture of northern Russian towns, and added two side buildings and three towers. The article says it tripled capacity. A 1965 to 1966 extension used reinforced concrete and glass at the rear.
It is one of Moscow's nine main-line terminuses, with the highest passenger throughput of the nine. It is the western terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the article calls Schechtel's buildings listed.
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