Maly Yaroslavets Restaurant

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MALY YAROSLAVETS (Maloyaroslavets). A restaurant opened in the 1870s at 8 Bolshaya Morskaya Street. Originated from a tavern of the same name, which was presumably built in 1812 and named in memory of the battle near Maloyaroslavets. In the 1890s, the restaurant became a sort of a fiction writers’ club. A.P. Chekhov, D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak, D.V. Grigorovich, M.P. Mussorgsky and others visited the restaurant, and M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin mocked the Maly Yaroslavets cuisine in some of his work. In 1910-11, the building, owned by engineer N.G. Kudryavtsev, was reconstructed according to a plan of his own, and the restaurant occupied three of its five floors. In 1917, the Maly Yaroslavets was closed down; in 1919 it was reorganised into the free-of-charge Admiralteisky District Soviet Cafeteria. From September 1945, the building housed the School for Food Industry.

Reference: Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. Большая Морская. СПб., 1996. С. 15.

I. A. Bogdanov. Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
Grigorovich Dmitry Vasilievich
Kudryavtsev Nikolay Galaktionovich
Mamin-Sibiryak (real name Mamin) Dmitry Narkisovich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. Большая Морская. СПб., 1996