Eliseevsky store nicknamed the shop-museum, the Hermitage store, the "temple of Bacchus" (so called-called the famous grocery store in the beginning of the 20th century), however, one thing is clear - a grandiose, amazing imagination with luxurious decoration, attracting not only an opportunity to buy, but also to see and see.
Eliseevsky store was still open in the distant 1901. It is still considered one of the first in Moscow. And here, unlike museums and temples, you can touch with your hands, but you also need to, and here you can taste a lot of rare dishes that you can not find in ordinary stores.
In the early 19th century. there was a literary salon in which A. Pushkin, E. A. Baratynsky, A. Mickiewicz often read their poems, and in the late 19th century, a St. Petersburg merchant, a millionaire Grigory Eliseev, a wine and colonial merchant, owner of the largest deli in Russia on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, bought the house on Tverskaya. Then, in the neo-baroque interiors, the first store opened - "Eliseev's and the Russian and foreign wine cellar store."
Delicacies of gastronomic and historical
Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky in the poem "Moscow and Muscovites" described this store-temple:
A on Tverskaya in the luxurious Yeliseyev Palace
Attracted crowds of innumerable people
Brilliant show of sausages, pastries, delicacies ...
Rows of ham, smoked and boiled,
Turkeys stuffed with geese,
Garlic sausages , with pistachios and pepper,
Cheeses of all ages stove - and chester, and Swiss,
And liquid brie, and parmeson granite ...
The clerk Alexei Ilyich tries at the fruit,
Stowed fragrant pyramid,
Filled baskets in motley ribbons ...
Here all - from French calville with coats of arms
Up to pineapples and unseen Japanese cherries
All this to this day. Many people drop in at Yeliseyevsky daily, others come here on an excursion. And all eyes, as they say, scatter from the abundance and variety of goods, and from the museum interiors of the deli - huge crystal chandeliers in the form of bunches of grapes, painted walls, arches, columns, stucco ... Eliseevsky is not just a grocery store, but a historical monument and the culture of Moscow, attracting tourists from around the world.
Gourmets here waiting for a variety of bread , pies , cakes , cakes , exclusive chocolate handmade; dishes of the European , Asian , Middle Eastern , as well as the original Russian cuisine: borshch Moscow , salad boyarly , salted from sturgeon , salted salmon , carp baked , chicken roll with prune or cheese ... The counter of meat semi-finished products of own production pleases the imagination of connoisseurs of home food: a rabbit chilled , tender tenderloin , Australian marble beef , entrecotes , steaks in Cossack , cutlets in Prague , on -Balkanski , homemade roast , lamb with beans in Mexican style , pepper stuffed with -Kedainski , paparatts-kvetki from chicken fillet with cheese and mushroom fillings , cod in Polish , zander in Moldovan , shish kebab from sturgeon ...
Those who prefer spiritual food will have to eat to taste architectural and design masterpieces, breathing perfection and harmony of art of the 18-19th centuries. Taste the atmosphere, saturated not only with the aroma of boiled pork and chocolate, but also with the spirit of Catherine, Pushkin, balls and drawing rooms of past centuries.
Address: Pushkinskaya metro station, ul. Tverskaya, 14.