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Our partners told us the most fascinating stories about their
hotels, we will share them with you in upcoming issues.
Official hotels of the IX St. Petersburg International Legal Forum
offer attractive rates on accommodation for SPBILF participants.
Hotel reservations is available via your Personal office,
see the list of hotels
Radisson Royal Hotel
The colorful history of the building on the odd-numbered side of the
Nevsky Prospect 49/2 with the pink-colored façade trails back to the
18th century. Traditionally, the evocative setting and the atmosphere of
historic St. Petersburg attracted people of the art and many cultural
and major public events played their essential role in the building’s
past. Many famous Russians were related to this historical building:
composer Mikhail Glinka, writers Nikolay Nekrasov and Anton Chekhov,
poet Alexander Pushkin, artist Vasiliy Surikov.
The exact date of the building construction is unknown, but it was one
of the first edifices in the area and already standing by late 1730s,
when this section of the city was a less than aristocratic neighborhood.
In the 1850-ties a 2nd-guild merchant Rotin owned the building and
opened a hotel and restaurant ‘Moscow’. In 1879, a 2nd-guild merchant
Abram Ushakov acquired a house at 49 Nevsky Prospect. He had renovated
the building giving it its current look – gorgeous façade, decorated
with stuccowork and caryatids. The restaurant was closed in the late
1920s. Yet the restaurant of the hotel continued to operate and even
expanded. In September 1964 the restaurant was reopened after the
reconstruction and continued operating till the 90-ies.
Right under ‘Moscow’ restaurant there was a nameless Café which will
forever remain in the memory of its visitors under the name of ‘Saigon’.
It became an unofficial meeting place where poets, writers and artists
from many different backgrounds and groups began to congregate, among
whom the future Nobel prize-winner Iosif Brodsky was a regular visitor.
This cafe figures large in the memories of writers and artists who grew
up in the city of Leningrad.
The Radisson Royal Hotel is very proud of its history and tries to keep
the ‘Saigon’ spirit alive when you visit the Cannelle Bar. You will find
many memorabilia like books, an old typewriter, gramophone and live piano
music from back in the days. On several tables in the Cannelle Bar you
will find unique plaques which honor and remember their famous visitors of
the past times.
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