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Video: What is Palkin's house in St. Petersburg known for with a unique front door, in which you feel like in a museum
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
St. Petersburg is famous for its magnificent old ceremonies. One of them is located on Rubinstein Street, in the former Palkin apartment building. You can come here like a museum. However, in addition to the amazing front door, this unique house itself and its former owners - the famous dynasty of restaurateurs, whose Palkin tavern was known throughout St. Petersburg - are also interesting.
The famous front door
A large pompous building at 4 Rubinstein Street was built as a tenement house. The project was ordered at the beginning of the last century to the architect Alexander Khrenov, one of the geniuses of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau, who has his own unique style.
Once on the main staircase of this house, you can see stained glass windows with intricate and varied floral decorations. The staircase delights with wrought iron rails depicting water lilies and other plants. There are decorative wooden compositions above the entrance doors - floral ornaments are also visible on these panels.
The elevator shaft is especially impressive - even it is decorated with forged flowers (most of the decor has not survived, but some fragments have survived to this day).
And if you look up at the vaulted ceilings of the front door, you will find that they are richly decorated too.
What made the Palkins famous
The very first and most famous of the Palkin taverns appeared in 1806 at the corner of Bolshaya Morskaya and Nevsky. The inn was famous for Russian meatless dishes. The institution soon became very popular, because delicious high-quality food was served here - ours, national. In addition, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, in the tavern, visitors were offered to listen to real Kursk nightingales!
Very soon the Palkin dynasty already owned several taverns in the city on the Neva. The very first and most famous tavern, which was called "Palkin", was popular with many prominent people. At various times Chekhov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mendeleev, Dostoevsky used to visit it. At the beginning of the last century, the poets Blok, Bryusov, Bely visited here.
During the reign of the descendant of the very first restaurateurs Palkins, Konstantin, the institution moved to a new building located at the intersection of Nevsky and Vladimirskaya streets, new dishes appeared on the menu - foreign ones, but the restaurant did not lose its popularity.
The Palkin House on Rubinstein Street with its famous front door still keeps the memory of the architect Khrenov and the former owners-restaurateurs. And, of course, it reminds of that unforgettable atmosphere of Russian gastronomic establishments, which cannot be returned.
By the way, do you know what decrottoes are? If not, we recommend reading about what are the remnants of the past times of tsarist Russiacan be seen on the streets of St. Petersburg today.
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