Deliseyev delicatessen shop (Saint Petersburg)

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Delicatessen Jelissejew from outside

The Yeliseyev Grocery Store ( Russian Елисеевский магазин ) in Saint Petersburg is located in the heart of the city on Nevsky Prospect  56, at the junction with the Malaya Sadovaya street .

It was built in the years 1902–1903 as a unique gourmet temple in the capital of the Russian Empire . The shop belonged to the trading company Jelissejew Brothers (Russian: Торговое товарищество, "Братья Елисеевы" ), which was founded in the 1810s by the former gardener Pyotr Jelissejew and his brother Grigori and initially focused on importing and selling fruits , Tea, coffee and other groceries in Russia. A few months earlier, in 1901, this trading company had a similar deli built on Tverskaya Street in Moscow . Both shops are architecturally assigned to Art Nouveau and were designed by the same architect, Gawriil Baranowski (1860–1920). The facade of the St. Petersburg House is adorned with several sculptures by the well-known Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson (1855–1929). The interiors of the sales halls were also kept very impressive and sumptuous for the time, with large floor lamps stylized as plants, mirrors and ornaments.

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During the Soviet times , the delicatessen store Jelissejew was in state hands and was officially called Gastronom No. 1 - both in Leningrad and Moscow - even though the name Jelisejew-Laden was popular in the vernacular. In the 1990s it was given its historical name back and is still considered one of the tourist attractions on Nevsky Prospect to this day, even if the store's range is no longer as exclusive as it was at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 30 ° 20 ′ 16.4 ″  E