Wawelberg Hotel is located in one of the most remarkable buildings at the intersection of Nevskiy Prospekt and Malaya Morskaya Street in the heart of St. Petersburg.
The first house at this address was built in 1802-1803 and belonged to the native Petersburg's citizen, the Bernikov brothers. The premises in the building were occupied by iconic tenants. There was a time when the building was accommodated the fashionable restaurant of the Englishman Thomas Robbie where Petersburgers had tasted steak for the first time. Later it was famous Konrad Ruch's couture house where Alexander Pushkin had bought his last almaviva cloak which he wore to the ill-fated duel with Dantes. In 1908-1910 the building accommodated the editorial office of the Satyricon magazine. Gifted poets - satirists and humorists such as Alexey Tolstoy, Vladimir Mayakovsky and many others collaborated with the magazine at various times.
The history of the new building began in 1910, when Mikhail Ippolitovich Wawelberg, a member of the famous Wawelberg banking family, acquired plots on Nevsky Prospekt for the construction of the Petersburg Trade Bank, the largest in the Russian Empire. The neo-Renaissance style building was erected according to the project of talented Russian architect Marian Peretyatkovich and was built as a Petersburg Trade Bank commissioned by Mikhail Wawelberg.
After 1917, Wawelberg House was occupied by various tenants, and since 1960 the building had been used as Aeroflot ticket office, where citizens could buy air tickets and catch buses to the airport. Since 2017 the building had been under reconstruction to turn it into Wawelberg Hotel. Today the building of Wawelberg Hotel is an architectural monument and a cultural heritage of Russia.
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