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Dume Restaurant

Categories / City Services/Restaurants, Cafes, Cafeterias

DUME RESTAURANT (15 Malaya Morskaya Street / 7 Gorokhovaya Street). Opened in the early 1820s by Andrieux, a former French Prisoner of War of 1812 who stayed in Russia. D. V. Venevitinov, F. V. Bulgarin and other literati dined at Andrieux's, but French visitors prevailed. In the late 1820s, Andrieux returned to France, and his compatriot Dume became the establishment's owner; in the mid-1830s, Dume's widow took over. Connoisseurs of French cuisine gathered at Dume Restaurant and banquets were regularly arranged there. The literary dinner given by A. F. Smirdin on 19 February 1832 in his bookshop to celebrate his housewarming was catered by Dume. Alexander Pushkin visited Dume Restaurant, and became acquainted there with G. Dantes in 1834. In the 1840s, Dume Restaurant was closed down. Today its premises house the Da Vinci Restaurant and Club.

I. A. Bogdanov.

Persons

Andrieux
Bulgarin Faddei Venediktovich
Dantes George Charles
Dume A.
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Smirdin Alexander Filippovich
Venevitinov Dmitry Vladimirovich

Addresses

Gorokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Malaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15

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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