Phoenix Restaurant

Categories / City Services/Restaurants, Cafes, Cafeterias
PHOENIX. A restaurant opened by the merchant Ivanov on 29 January 1833 on Alexandrinskaya Square (behind the building of the Alexandrinsky Theatre; today 2 Ostrovskogo Square), serving Russian and French cuisine. In the 1840s, the Phoenix became an informal artistic club, attended mainly by theatre-goers and actors, as well as literary men (V.N. Davydov, K.A. Varlamov, N.A. Nekrasov). In the 1850s, the restaurant ceased to exist; in the 1860s the Old Phoenix Hotel was established on its premises. In 1911-12, the building was reconstructed to accommodate the Society of the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinskaya Railway Line (architect A.A. Grechannikov). Today it houses the administration of the Oktyabrskaya Railway.

I. A. Bogdanov. Davydov Vladimir Nikolaevich
Grechannikov Alexander Alexandrovich
Ivanov
Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeevich
Varlamov Konstantin Alexandrovich
Ostrovsky Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Alexandrinsky Theatre