I heard that story about Tsar Nicholas II, in whose reign the first Trans-Siberian railway line (from Moscow to Vladivostok) was actually completed- it was begu

I heard that story about Tsar Nicholas II, in whose reign the first Trans-Siberian railway line (from Moscow to Vladivostok) was actually completed- it was begun during his father's reign, but Nicholas supervised it from the beginning. The similar Stalin story is about the Hotel Moskva, as depicted on the label of Stolichnaya vodka. The architect allegedly didn't know which of two possible designs Stalin wanted to approve, so one wing was built to each design.