Yakov Chernikhov

I found this on Dark Roasted Blend. The architect Yakov Chernikhov was apparently too innovative to be trusted by Stalin's regime despite how much the grandiose ambition of Chernikhov's designs would have suited Stalin's own brutal ambition to leave his mark on the world. He had published several books featuring his designs and was called the Soviet Piranesi.

The tower in the background reminds me of the painting of The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/communist-gothic.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Chernikhov