The Moscow metro is a real underground kingdom: more than 170 stations, 12 lines, 292 kilometers of tracks, about 10 million passengers per day
This dungeon has its own mythology, legends, traditions, omens. They say that sometimes people, descending on a platform or getting on a train, fall into temporary holes, are transported through space in an unknown way and meet ghosts. Dear Muscovites and guests of the capital! We invite you on a journey through the dark side of the Moscow metro!
In truth, few people in the street had to walk through underground tunnels, and not rush through them at great speed by train. The unknown always gives rise to the strangest and most terrible legends. A couple of decades ago, many newspapers published articles about huge, one-meter mutant rats living underground with five-centimeter teeth, hard and sharp hair like a knife blade, from time to time attacking trains and easily biting through the skin of carriages.
Another legend is a whole tribe of people who, for various reasons, once descended underground and live there in the darkness, having lost their human form, covered with hair and almost blind. And, of course, the tunnels are inhabited by ghosts: a black lineman walks along the tracks, having worked all his life in the subway and did not dare to part with him after his death. And sometimes ghost trains rush along the rails: either empty, without drivers, or filled with passengers dressed in costumes from different times.
Strange interiors
Particularly attentive in one of the mosaics called "Struggle for Soviet Power in Ukraine" at the Kievskaya-Koltsevaya station, which was opened in 1954, can see a Red Army soldier sitting in front of a laptop, talking on a mobile phone and holding a PDA. Although less mystical citizens claim that the fighter for the new order speaks only by radio, looks at a book and holds a notebook in his hand.
Fans of various pagan cults pay attention to the seemingly unremarkable modern station "Perovo". In the panels decorated based on folk art, some see ancient idols, others - animals from the "Apocalypse" of John the Theologian.
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On "Ilyich Square" you can see the inhabitants of the ancient warm sea, and this is no longer a legend. The stones with which the station is decorated keep the remains of thousands of fossil molluscs, contemporaries of dinosaurs. If you look closely, similar fossils can be seen in the lobby of Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya, Dobryninskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Paveletskaya, Kurskaya and many other stations.
"Bad" places
Metro builders had to disturb the peace of several cemeteries. The dead were not tolerated with the appropriate rites, simply "forgetting" about them, and the marble from the tombstones was used in the decoration of new stations. Such cases, as you know, do not pass without a trace. The dungeon is closer to the dark forces, and therefore the influence of the "black" energy increases.
One of the most disliked places among metro workers is the Sokol station. Employees constantly feel an otherworldly presence, as if someone is quietly watching them. Particularly impressionable people even talk about transparent figures appearing at the station when there are no passengers there yet. The reason for the anomalous phenomena alleged by parapsychologists is the nearby huge cemetery, where the soldiers who died in the First World War were first buried, and then the priests who were shot after the revolution.
However, this is far from the only "cemetery" station. The Old Believers' churchyard was located on the site of the station "Preobrazhenskaya Ploschad", the whole area was built on the bones of the deceased, buried in a huge Jewish cemetery on Kutuzovsky Prospekt near the metro station "Kutuzovskaya". The suicide bombers are attracted by the largest interchange hub of the Lenin Library, Borovitskaya, Arbatskaya and Aleksandrovsky Sad stations. This is revenge of the inhabitants of the ancient Starovagankovskaya settlement for the destroyed houses and the destroyed old churchyard.
Signs
According to popular rumor, luck will accompany those who travel the entire line from end to end (it seems that some of the happiest people in Moscow are those who live in Novogireevo and work in the center: they have to overcome this short line twice a day, but it is not known whether the omen is valid on the shortest Kakhovska branch with a length of 3.3 km).
One of the most magical stations is Revolution Square. 76 bronze sculptures by Matvey Manizer so amazed the imagination of the townspeople that there was even talk of German prisoners of war filled with metal. Was born and several signs. The face of a dog, rubbed with the hands of passers-by to a golden shine, and frozen by a border guard sitting on one knee, is adored by careless students - you just need to touch it, and the exam will be passed. Another way to adequately pass the test is to hold the dog by the paw. Just in case, it's best to bypass all four animals. Before a responsible date, it doesn't hurt to touch the polished chest of one of the female figures - and everything will go fine. The real anti-crisis remedy is the Chekist's Mauser: you touch it, and financial well-being and help in business are provided. Some townspeople don't want luck to smile on someone elseand constantly stealing weapons. On average, once a season, the Mauser has to be done again. But he does not lose his magic power from this. But you should stay away from the bronze rooster at the feet of a collective farmer: touching it can bring misfortune.
Probably, this sculptor had some kind of magic gift - another sign is connected with his creations at the Partizanskaya station (former Izmailovsky Park): lovers are advised to meet exclusively at the right leg of a huge partisan, and then their relationship will last a long time. On the other hand, it is not recommended to appoint a rendezvous at the left: someone will definitely go through life "in the wrong direction."