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A Toast to the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia

This year the Auberge Astoria celebrates its 100th ceremony in St.Petersburg, Russia.I’m celebrating, too, because I got to break there one white winter anon afterwards it was purchased and refurbished by the British freeholder Sir Rocco Forte in 1997.Other admirable hotels may be added famous, but the Astoria holds its own abode of pride a allotment of them.

A Russian figure in the Art Nouveau appearance on St.Isaac’s Square abreast the Neva River, the Astoria evokes a Belle Epoque apple of admirable dukes, ballerinas and Fabergé eggs.Everyone from Rasputin to Isadora Duncan backward there, bubbler tea from gold-rimmed teacups fabricated by the czar’s admired Lomonosov ceramics branch or swilling Russian Standard vodka at its clover and wood-lined Kandinsky Bar.

All that was swept abroad by the Bolshevik Revolution, but the auberge soldiered on.Lenin gave a accent from its balustrade in 1919 and during Apple War II Hitler planned to mark the city’s abandonment in the Astoria, admitting Leningrad endured the 900-day German siege, proving the Führer premature.

The Astoria is awe-inspiring in an Old Apple way, not over-the-top like added avant-garde admirable hotels, with soaring, chandelier-bedizened ceilings, abundant swagged drapes, boilerplate ice cream-colored abstraction and red-carpeted staircases.My allowance had a antechamber afar from the sleeping alcove by etched-glass doors and a hand-embroidered bedspread, acquiescently quiet even admitting its window looked anon over active St.Isaac’s Square.There I watched snow covering the gold arch of the cathedral, sat account Robert K.Massie’s Nicholas and Alexandra or dressed for the ballet at the adjacent Mariinsky Theatre.


A Toast to the Astoria Auberge in St. Petersburg, Russia

The library of the hotel.

As allotment of the bazaar celebration, appropriate boxes at the Mariinsky are accessible to auberge guests, and applesauce evenings acknowledgment to the Astoria, a attitude amorphous in the 1920s.If you go, amuse accession a Russian Standard on the rocks in at the Kandinsky Bar.I’ll be accomplishing the aforementioned in spirit.

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