2 auditoriums: 609+50 seats. There are VIP seats. In 1911, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War (1812), the Russian architect Fedor Shekhtel’ rebuilt the cinema in the Empire style, which was so popular at the time. It immediately became aristocrats’ and intelligentsia’s favourite place in Moscow. The first films to be shown in the cinema, where those of M.Romm, the Vasil’ev brothers, G.Aleksandrov and others. In Soviet times the cinema was loved by the country’s intelligentsia. In the cinema, you will find the same box, where Russian political elitists, such as I.V.Stalin, L.Beriya, Molotov, Mikoyan, Khrushchev, Furtseva.watched films from.