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Rhodes Villa Restaurant
Rhodes Villa Restaurant
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City Services/Restaurants, Cafes, Cafeterias
RHODES VILLA. A country restaurant opened in 1908 by entrepreneur A.S. Rhodes at the corner of Novoderevenskaya Embankment and Stroganovskaya Street (today Primorsky Avenue and Akad. Krylova Street) in the Crystal pavilion; it was constructed on the location of the Pompeii Restaurant, which had operated there from 1885. The Rhodes Villa featured a large summer theatre and a summer terrace-restaurant with a stage where famous actors gave performances (including N.V. Dulkevich, A.I. Mozzhukhin, and others). A.A. Blok dedicated several lines to Rhodes Villa (" I sat by the window in a crowded room. ..."). As contemporaries witnessed (K.I. Chukovsky, M.K. Kuprina-Iordanskaya), Rhodes Villa there was visited by a stash of "golden youth". After the February Revolution of 1917, the restaurant was closed down; the Iskra Political Club operated on its premises from April of 1917 (Lenin gave a speech at its opening ceremony). In the 1920s, the building housed the Fakel Cinema; from the late 1920s, it housed the Iskra Plant № 23 Club. In 1954, the building burnt down, and in its place a plant-stadium was constructed; later a part of its territory was given to the Sverdlov Hospital, and a park was put on the other part. Reference: Векслер А. Ф. В парке у Черной речки // Диалог. 1989. № 20. С. 26-32. I. A. Bogdanov.
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Akademika Krylova St./Saint Petersburg, city
Primorsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Bibliographies
Векслер А. Ф. В парке у Черной речки // Диалог, 1989
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Buff, theatre
BUFF, the name of several Petersburg musical theatres (from the Italian: opera buffa is comic opera). The first Theatre-Buff was opened in the garden of the Anichkov Palace (today known as the Recreation Garden) on Nevsky Prospect in 1872
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Novaya Derevnya
NOVAYA DEREVNYA, a historical district in the north-west of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River, in the west it borders on Staraya Derevnya, in the east it is confined by the Chernaya Rechka River
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Variety Theatre (Entry)
VARIETY THEATRE (from the French word varietes, from the Latin varietas - mixture) is the name for leisure programmes based on uniting various genres normally demonstrated at restaurants and cafes (they were supplemented with meal)
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