Eliseevskii
With the #14 of the street Tverskaïa, close to the intersection with Strastnoï boulevard, is the most famous store of food of Moscow, the Épicerie Eliseevskii (ЕлисеевскийМагазин). At the time Soviet, the name of Gastronom #1 carried (Гастроном №1). Piotr Eliseev (of which a bust is presented in the hall), a serf and gardener which gained his freedom by cultivating perfect strawberries, had so much success in businesses with Saint-Pétersbourg that its sons could found the Frères Eliseev and open branches with Moscow and with Kiev. About 1898, Grigori Eliseev bought the building of the street Tverskaïa and transformed it into store of luxury, by arranging there an exuberant decoration of stained glasses, glosses out of crystal, pillars carved, counters out of polished wooden and large mirrors. After the Revolution, the Eliseev supposément tried to save their gold while making some of the stems and connections for the lamps of the immense candlesticks illuminating the store. Before, in the years 1820, this old private mansion belonged to the princess Zinaïda Volkonskaïa (of which the brother, the Prince Volkonskii , was off-set in Siberia for its role in the Révolte of Décembristes), whose literary living room was attended in particular by Pouchkine.
The building, built in the years 1770, underwent major restorations in the years 1790 and in 1898.
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