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Entries / Talon Restaurant

Talon Restaurant


Categories / City Services/Restaurants, Cafes, Cafeterias

TALON (15 Nevsky Prospect / 14 Bolshaya Morskaya). Opened in the mid-1810s by French immigrant P. Talon in the Kosikovsky Residence building (see House of Chicherin). Alexander Pushkin dined at Talon (the restaurant is mentioned in his verse-novel Eugene Onegin). In spring of 1825, Talon left St. Petersburg, and the restaurant was turned into an information service bureau (which existed for over 10 years); then it turned into Filliette's Restaurant (also often visited by Pushkin), and after a while, into Violet Confectioner's Shop.

Reference: Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. Большая Морская. СПб., 1996. С. 33-42.

I. A. Bogdanov.

Persons
Filliette Jean
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Talon Peter
Violet

Addresses
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15

Bibliographies
Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. Большая Морская. СПб., 1996

The subject Index
Chicherin House



Restaurants (entry)

RESTAURANTS, appeared in St. Petersburg in the early 19th century. The first "auberge," also called a tavern (see Traktirs), was located at the Hotel du Nord on Ofitserskaya Street, and was considered a "restaurant" in 1805