Two new stations at the north end of the Light Green metro line, Dostoyevskaya and Marina Roshcha, opened Saturday, June 19, despite complains that murals in the one of them might inspire people to commit suicide.
Dostoyevskaya’s murals show scenes from the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including a man about to murder an old woman with an ax. The artwork remains untouched, even though it was dubbed “gloomy and aggressive” by psychologists in May, when the stations were originally scheduled to open.
The opening of Dostoyevskaya and Marina Roshcha, under construction since the early 1990s, brought the number of Moscow metro stations to 182 and total track length to more than 300 kilometers.
Staff photographer Vladimir Filonov shared a number of shots from his visit to the gleaming new stations.
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