The most famous mini-hotels of St. Petersburg Automatic translate

Every tourist who has visited St. Petersburg takes away, perhaps, the main impression: Petersburg is a real museum city. The best buildings of the city were created by the mind and talent of the greatest architects of their time - Rossi, Rastrelli, Montferrand, Tezini, Kvasova. More than six architectural styles - classicism, baroque, empire, rococo, neo-gothic, neo-renaissance - are vividly represented in the architectural ensemble of St. Petersburg. The mansions of famous figures, palaces, buildings of embassies and universities, arenas, chambers, banks, apartment buildings - all together create a unique single complex, known far beyond the borders of Russia.

The buildings of the old city not only fulfill their functional purposes today. Behind each of them are historical facts, events, the names of world-famous writers, artists, artists who lived and worked here. Only in St. Petersburg can you sit at a table in a restaurant where Fedor Chaliapin noisily celebrated birthdays, Sergei Yesenin read his poems, and Anna Akhmatova drank aromatic coffee in the evenings.

One of the most famous Petersburgers of the twentieth century, without a doubt, is Sergey Dovlatov. In St. Petersburg, he lived most of his life, from 1944 to 1978. Here he entered the Leningrad State Institute twice, served in the internal troops, worked as a journalist, tour guide, literary secretary. In St. Petersburg, he wrote many of his works, most of which he managed to publish only in samizdat or emigrant magazines. In 1995, a special literary prize named after Sergey Dovlatov was established for the best story written by a Petersburg author or published in St. Petersburg.

All Petersburg years, Dovlatov lived in the same house, on Rubinstein Street, in the very center of the city. The building of the XIX century, renovated in 2011, is now known for the Zapovednik mini-hotel located here. The design of the hotel instantly takes us to the literary world created by Sergei Dovlatov. This is one of the most unusual hotels in St. Petersburg.

Note that mini-hotels of St. Petersburg They are famous for the fact that they are often located in historic houses, or at least next to the main monuments of architecture and history of the city. And here you can’t help but recall one of the most popular mini-hotels in St. Petersburg - Old Vienna. The modern hotel is located in the mezzanine of the building, on the corner of Malaya Morskaya and Gorokhovaya streets. From the end of the 19th century, the popular Vienna Tavern was located here, and later the Vienna Restaurant, which became a favorite gathering place for Petersburg intelligentsia until the 1917 revolution. The regulars of Vienna were I. Kuprin, A. Averchenko, A. Blok, F. Chaliapin, L. Sobinov and others. Many epigrams are dedicated to this place. The entire editorial board of the Satyricon gathered here, the Academy of Ecumenical Futurists Igor Severyaninov was founded here.

The atmosphere of the Silver Age is preserved in the mini-hotel “Old Vienna”. Each hotel room is dedicated to one of its famous visitors. A distinctive feature of this particular hotel was a beautiful library composed of the best works of Russian authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And nowadays, “Old Vienna” remains, continuing the tradition of a century ago, a popular meeting place for modern writers.

Modern St. Petersburg hotels They can boast of another hotel that takes their guests to the unique world of St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. This is a mini-hotel "Holstomer" dedicated to the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, which is the basis of the play "The Story of a Horse", which premiered in 1975. The performance was on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Gorky for many years, always with constant success, was recorded for television. The hotel has a small, but very interesting exposition dedicated to the famous actor Evgeny Lebedev, who played the main role in the performance - the gelding of Holstomer. Lebedev was one of the leading BDT actors, in his repertoire the roles of Rogozhin in “Idiot”, Bessemenov in “Petty Bourgeois”, grandfather Schukar in “Virgin Soil Upturned” and others. Children of the Soviet Union must remember the incredibly vivid images of Baba Yaga created by Evgeny Lebedev.