The Astoria Restaurant St Petersburg 1913

Pесторан «Астория» Санкт-Петербург 1913 г.
The Astoria Restaurant St Petersburg 1913

Here I present an album of photographs of the famous "Astoria Restaurant" taken in 1913, a few months after the opening of the hotel
The hotel was commissioned in 1910 in the hope that it would be ready for the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty -- but by the time the royal festivities took place in May 1913, the hotel had already found favour with St Petersburg society. Its opening on 23 December 1912 was enough of an event for the noted photographer Karl Bulla to capture the evening on film.It was the start of a brief but flamboyant period. As the First World War raged, aristocrats threw lavish parties in the hotel's Winter Garden ballroom. Rasputin was known to spend the night with some of his married lovers, sneaking away from the machinations of court.

Видео The Astoria Restaurant St Petersburg 1913 канала Nigel Fowler Sutton