Stalin's "Baroque" Bashny.Net

St. Petersburg, Rome, Paris, Budapest, Vienna ... these cities have become synonymous with the concept of "museum city". We buy a tourist ticket, put the bag in 1200 euros, passport, camera, video camera, GPS, and ordered a taxi to the airport.
And all in order to join the beautiful, to know the beauty of the classical European architecture of the Renaissance, or the times of the Roman Empire.
Upon arrival, we were surprised to learn that all this beauty was somewhere seen. No, not in movies or in the glossy magazines, even the Internet. Where?
That's right, in my hometown (in Petrograd is not the case, and so they live in a museum), in his native Dnepropetrovsk, Moscow, Zaporozhye, Irkutsk, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Novosibirsk ...
And you give up, when just a minute ago, he decided to take a picture out or arch pediment. You think one more govnofotki lay in his blog that the network has probably millions. It would be cheaper to download someone else, standing on a fountain his face and give to friends souvenirs "from-to" purchased in the stock shop across the street. There I buy croissants and Chardonnay.
About such thoughts visited a few years ago and me. Then I took a cell phone (Samsung D-600), left on the main street of Zaporozhye - Lenin Avenue (the longest in Europe), and he began to create a "renaissance."





Condition of many objects, "Stalin Baroque" corresponds to the same classical Rome and Venice, with a difference of 300 years.



Of course, the style of architecture is different from the classic "Hermitage", but still has the common Greek roots.



On decorative moldings (arabesque) visible label - is the name of the street done "in stone." That is "forever."



But here much mixture of styles. Here and late-Roman facade with oriel Renaissance.



And this is not the temple of the god Hermes, and only stall the box office of the regional philharmonic society.



Monumentality style "pink tuff" on the facade of the ports are not textured brickwork back wall.



Temple Culture. Previously, he was a DC Railway. B. Drobyazko. Now the educational building of the local university.



Comrade Lenin is still "pushing it" to the workers of the plant Michelson.



Local "Leaning Tower". The building of the last few decades, leaning toward the roadway. Finally, using a longitudinal drilling under the foundation pumped liquid glass. The house was leveled. In 1938 this facility was part of the architectural ensemble of the "City of the Sun", presented at the Paris architectural exhibition. Won 1st place among all the submitted architectural projects. He was even in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (2nd edition) is mentioned in several of illustrated articles.



Marginalized and hegemony every day pass by this beauty. Glue them the ad "gold-armored door-window" redneck adventurous beats moldings and hangs it on his kugutskie banners with ugly names.



Every asshole trying to plug its sign once beautiful facade of the building. Over time, the architecture is no longer visible because of these "footcloths."



And some balconies which only cost! Every redneck, barely abode into a new apartment, he begins to build a chicken coop on his balcony from scrap materials. Against the general background see who is running and who is there've stole "the balcony." Outwardly, it looks not strict classical ensemble and Lata blanket in Latin Shanghai.



In the few buildings that looks decent, enters any fuflyzhnye bank and starts to "make repairs." Solid wooden window frames are replaced by poor and cheap "Metal-plastic", the entire inner molding turns to rubble, behind suspended ceilings "Rehau" made of perforated paper. And the entrance is "decorated" sign and brutal plastic visor-style "cafe" Shverma. "



The rest of the palaces quietly die.



Once grand design was intended to strengthen faith in a brighter future. Even on the walls was carved in stone articles of the Constitution of the USSR guarantees the right to work. Now that right there is no guarantee on the walls can be read only by swearing.



You do something like? Yes, they are all Slavs Slavs. Sculpt of shit bullet - our favorite national pastime.



Cattle which did not sit, it even makes the palace barracks. Shvonder and ball - 95% of the population of the CIS. They multiply like locusts, destroying everything worked their own hands. As in the joke about how Russian squander an iron ball and the second broke.



We are decent people would be able to prevent such desolation in his house?



And the idea that everything around us - it's in our heads, is true.



To whom were these fountains, these towers?



This cement has seen many fish. On the benches in front of the fountain fuck Shiryaev, thumps, shit. That is, cultural relax.



Arches.



Arches



Arch



And here's one more.



In which European city, in the historical part of it, so it finishes with monuments? Knock carved doors, air conditioners hang on walls, windows okleivayut parrot "orakalom"? But for such mockery of history, tupoyu spoon eggs cut! In which European country you have seen that in the historic city beat carved front door, above them hung banners parrot, the windows hung air conditioners? For that kind of abuse of monuments of architecture, it is necessary to cut tupoyu spoon eggs and clits!



But still local pockets of surviving "Stalinist Baroque" you can still see and appreciate in.



Palace of Culture. Kirov.



Monument ardent fighter for the bright future that never came ...



Another "cultural center" - Zaporizhzhya Regional Philharmonic Society.



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