As soon as Alexei Shchusev was not called during his lifetime - a poet, philosopher, artist, and he was primarily a talented architect. Hereditary Cossack, nobleman, gold medalist of the Academy of Arts, architect of the Holy Synod, holder of royal orders and laureate of Stalin Prizes, author of three dozen churches, Lenin's Mausoleum, Martha-Mariinsky monastery, Moskva hotel, Kazan station, Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya metro station - all this is Shchusev, who described his career as "struggle for the embodiment of his own ideas"