Place
Eliseyev Emporium
Eliseyev Emporium, Sankt-Peterburg, 191023
Art Nouveau food hall with soaring arched windows, built by a wine-and-grocery merchant dynasty at the turn of the century.
This guide to the Eliseyev Emporium in Saint Petersburg opens with the household finding Maria Eliseyeva dead one morning in the 1910s, after she begged her husband Grigory not to leave her for another man's wife. It traces back to 1903, when Grigory, heir to a wine-and-grocery fortune, opened this Art Nouveau food hall on Nevsky Prospekt, designed by architect Gabriel Baranovsky as the grandest shop in the empire. Best heard while looking up at the great arched windows that once framed pyramids of fruit and imported wine.
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