It’s said that Ivan the Terrible forbade any building more beautiful than St Basil’s Cathedral. Though he has his architect’s eyes gauged out, Russia’s magnificence only grew and grew. With their obscene opulence, the Summer and Winter Palaces of the tsars stand as testament to the pivotal peasant revolt. The ruby stars of Red Square glow as gems remaining from of the soviet era. And the mosaicked Moscow Metro has to be once of the grandest subways in the world.