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. Filliette Jean
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Talon Peter
Violet
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. Большая Морская. СПб., 1996 Chicherin House