The ini­tia­tor of the con­struc­tion was Sav­va Mamon­tov. William Wal­cot devel­oped the ini­tial project on his order. The Metropol build­ing plays an excep­tion­al­ly impor­tant role in shap­ing the appear­ance of The­atre Square and Rev­o­lu­tion Square. The hotel is the largest pub­lic build­ing of the Art Nou­veau era and is rec­og­nized as one of the most sig­nif­i­cant Moscow his­tor­i­cal and archi­tec­tur­al mon­u­ments of this style.