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

Every tourist who has visited St. Petersburg takes away perhaps the most important impression: St. 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, Tesini, Kvasov. More than six architectural styles - classicism, baroque, empire, rococo, neo-gothic, neo-renaissance - are vividly represented in the architectural ensemble of St. Petersburg. Mansions of famous personalities, palaces, embassy and university buildings, maneges, chambers, banks, profitable houses - all together create a unique unified complex, known far beyond the borders of Russia.

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

One of the most famous Petersburgers of the twentieth century is undoubtedly Sergei Dovlatov. He lived in St. Petersburg for most of his life, from 1944 to 1978. Here he enrolled twice in the Leningrad State Institute, served in the internal troops, worked as a journalist, tour guide, and literary secretary. In St. Petersburg he wrote many of his works, most of which could be published only in samizdat or emigrant magazines. In 1995, a special literary prize named after Sergei Dovlatov was established for the best story written by a St. Petersburg author or published in St. Petersburg.

All of Dovlatov’s Petersburg years were spent living in the same house, on Rubinstein Street, in the very center of the city. The 19th century building, renovated in 2011, is now known for the mini-hotel “Zapovednik”. The decoration of the hotel instantly transports us to the literary world created by Sergei Dovlatov. This is one of the most unusual hotels in St. Petersburg.

Note that mini-hotels in St. Petersburg are famous for the fact that they are often located in historic houses, or at least near the main monuments of architecture and history of the city. One of the most popular mini-hotels in St. Petersburg - “Old Vienna”. The modern hotel is located in the mezzanine level of the building, on the corner of Malaya Morskaya and Gorokhovaya Streets. From the end of the 19th century it was home to the popular “Vienna inn” and later to the “Vienna restaurant”, which became a favorite gathering place for St. Petersburg intellectuals until the 1917 revolution. I.Kuprin, A.Averchenko, A.Blok, F.Chaliapin, L.Sobinov and others were regulars at “Vienna”. Many epigrams are dedicated to this place. The entire editorial staff “of the Satyricon” gathered here, and the Academy of Universal Futurists of Igor Severyaninov was founded here.

The atmosphere of the Silver Age has been preserved in the mini-hotel “Old Vienna”. Each room of the hotel is dedicated to one of its famous visitors. The distinctive feature of this particular hotel was a wonderful library, composed of the best works of Russian authors of the end of the XIХ - beginning of the XX century. Even today “Old Vienna” remains a popular meeting place for contemporary writers, continuing the tradition of a century ago.

Modern hotels in St. Petersburg can boast one more hotel that transports its guests into the unique world of St. Petersburg of the early twentieth century. This is the mini-hotel “Holstomer”, dedicated to Leo Tolstoy’s story of the same name, which was the basis for the play “The Story of a Horse”, which premiered in 1975. The play was performed on the stage of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater for many years, always with unwavering success, and was recorded for television. There is a small but very interesting exposition dedicated to the famous actor Evgeny Lebedev, who played the main role in the play - the gelding Holstomer. Lebedev was one of the leading actors of the BDT, his repertoire includes the role of Rogozhin in “The Idiot”, Bessemenov in “The Meshchans”, Grandpa Shchukar in “The Raising of the virgin lands” and others. Children of the Soviet Union should remember the incredibly vivid images of Baba Yaga created by Evgeny Lebedev.