架构师提供的文本描述。该皇家旅馆最初于1953年建成，名为乌克兰饭店，由阿尔卡迪·莫德维诺夫和维亚切斯拉夫·奥尔塔日夫斯基设计，是莫斯科“七姐妹”之一(当时莫德维诺夫担任建筑和建筑委员会主席)。这座五星级酒店综合体是世界上最高的酒店，完工时有34层(650英尺)，坐落在莫斯科河的河岸上。这一独特的地点需要相当大的结构创新，在早期建设，这将在后面的功能讨论。

Text description provided by the architects. Originally completed in 1953 as the Hotel Ukraina, the Royal Hotel was designed by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky and stands as one of the “Seven Sisters” of Moscow (Mordvinov was acting as the Chairman of the Committee of Construction and Architecture at the time). This five-star hotel complex was the tallest hotel in the world at its completion at 34 stories (650ft) and is sited on the banks of the Moskva River. This unique site required considerable structural innovation during early construction, which will be discussed later in the feature.

七姐妹是斯大林时代建造的摩天大楼新古典主义皇家酒店是其中之一，伴随着科特尼斯卡亚堤坝公寓，库丁斯卡娅广场大厦，伦宁拉茨卡亚酒店，外交部，莫斯科国立大学的主要建筑，和红色盖茨行政大楼。以任何标准来衡量，这家酒店占地近100万平方英尺，拥有一系列住宿和娱乐设施，包括500多个酒店客房、38间长期住宿公寓、5家餐厅、一个400人的会议中心、一个1000人的宴会厅、水疗中心和一群河流游艇。

The Seven Sisters are skyscrapers built in the Stalin-era the neoclassical Royal Hotel is one of the seven, accompanied by the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hotel Leningradskaya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main building of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building. A massive complex by any standards at almost one million square feet of floor area, the hotel boasts an array of lodging and entertainment offerings including over five hundred hotel rooms, thirty-eight extended stay apartments, five restaurants, a 400-person conference center, a 1000-person banquet hall, spa, and a fleet of river yachts.

尽管皇家酒店有着沉重的整体存在，但这座建筑群实际上是以钢框架高层建筑的形式建造的-当时在钢框架建筑上，奥尔塔日夫斯基(Oltarzhevsky)已经掌握了这一建筑。这座建筑群的质量令人难以置信地掩盖了它的高度-在最高的塔楼里，它有34层楼高，需要钢结构的材料特性。项目所需的另一项创新是复杂建筑的结构基础。酒店靠近河床，地基必须设置在地下水位以下，因此，设计和施工团队使用了一个深井抽水机周边进行保水。

Despite the heavy and monolithic presence of the Royal Hotel, the complex was actually constructed as a steel-framed high rise a construction mastered by the authority on steel framed buildings at the time, Oltarzhevsky.  The incredible mass of the complex belies its height which, at 34 stories in the tallest tower, requires the material characteristics of steel construction.  Another innovation necessitated by project dealt with the structural foundation of the complex.  The hotel’s proximity to the riverbed required the foundation to be set well below the water table as a result, the design and construction team utilized a perimeter of deep-well needle pumps for water retention purposes.

这家酒店在2010年4月完成了为期3年的翻修后，现已开业，修复了酒店的外墙，并通过先进的水净化系统和高效的空气循环系统实现了酒店基础设施的现代化。

The hotel is open for business after a 3-year renovation that was completed in April 2010, which restored the façade and modernized the hotel infrastructure with advanced water cleaning systems and efficient air circulation systems.