Eliseyev Emporium (Saint Petersburg)

The deli Jelissejew (Russian Елисеевский магазин ) is located in Saint Petersburg, directly in the heart of the city on Nevsky Prospekt 56, at the intersection with the Malaya Sadowaja Street.

He was then built in the years 1902-1903 than in the capital of the Russian empire largely unique gourmet temple. The store was one of the trading company Gebrüder Jelissejew (Russian: Торговое товарищество " Братья Елисеевы "), which was founded in the decade from 1810 by former gardener Pyotr Jelissejew and his brother Grigori and initially focused on the import and distribution of wines, exotic fruits had specialized in tea, coffee and other colonial goods in Russia. This trading company was already a few months earlier, in 1901, to build a similar deli on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. Both stores are architecturally attributable to the Art Nouveau and were by the same architect Gavriil Baranovsky (1860-1920) designed. The front facade of the St. Petersburg house is decorated with sculptures of the famous Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson ( 1855-1929 ). The interiors of the halls was for sale at that time kept very impressive and ornate, with large stylized as plant floor lamps, mirrors and ornaments.

During Soviet times, the deli Jelissejew was in state hands, and called - both in Leningrad and in Moscow - officially restaurateur No. 1, even if the name Jelissejew shop popularly still had stock. In the 1990s, he got back, the historical name and is still regarded as one of the tourist attractions on the Nevsky Prospekt, even if the range of the store today is not quite so exclusive as the early 20th century.