Category:Petrovsky Bulvar
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A part of the Boulevard ring (Bulvarnoe Koltso), Petrovsky bulv. was named after the Vysokopetrovsky monastery. The oldest building here (No.6-8) is dated 1786. Once it was a palace of count Tatischev, noble grandee of Catherine the Great. Magnificent balls attracted all Moscow aristocrats here and even Tsar Pavel I favoured Tatischev with His Majestic visit.
Elegantly looking house No.17 was built by R. Klein. Probably once it attracted as many people as Tatischev’s balls: it was a famous wine-shop owned by Dupret.
House No.14 at the corner of Neglinnaya and Petrovsky Boulevard is a "permanent address" of Melpomene and Thalia – famous Moscow theatre “Shkola Sovremennoy Piesy”. But before the revolution it was an institution more appropriate for a residence of the Cooking Muse: beloved by Moscow intellectuals restaurant "Hermitage" offered its delicious dishes here. Petr Chaikovsky enjoyed it enough to organise his own wedding here in 1877. And the whole Russia must be grateful to the chef of this restaurant Lucien Olivier for inventing a salad later known in Russia as "Olivier" and in the rest of the world as “the Russian salad”. And another fine tradition began here: the day of Tatyana, students’ day, was celebrated here for the first time. On this day, on January 25th drunken students were not arrested due to incredible kindness and understanding of policemen.
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