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Seven Sisters on a map and side by side for comparison.

Seven Sisters on a map and side by side for comparison.

Photo of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. A view of it from the river portraying its sheer grandeur.

Photo of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. A view of it from the river portraying its sheer grandeur.

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. This was Stalin's large project post-WW2 to express the dominance of communism to the world.

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is one of the Seven Sister skyscrapers. This was Stalin's large project post-WW2 to express the dominance of communism to the world.

The interior of a Metro station in Komsomolskaya Square next to Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky train stations.

The interior of a Metro station in Komsomolskaya Square next to Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky train stations.

This is a 1952 aerial shot of Charles River Esplanade, which shows the esplanade with a permanent, and larger shell: the Hatch Memorial Shell built in 1941, and the same oval we see in the 1938 aerial shot. Storrow Drive has been extended farther…