Praga Restaurant (Moscow)

 restaurant, building/structure currently being renovated/restored/reconstructed, interesting place, 1896_construction, 17th century construction, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia)

www.praga.ru

Historic 1870s restaurant, one of the most luxurious in the city in Tsarist times, rebuilt numerous times. One of the few major restaurants in Moscow in the Soviet era, when dining establishments not run by the state were forbidden.

Restaurant "Praga", con. XVIII century. , 1906, architect. L. Kekushev; 1915 add-in and change the façade, architect. AE Erichson, 1954-1955 renovation, architect. B. Sobolewski.

Original three-dimensional arrangement established in the era of classicism, this still reminds rotondalny volume on the corner of the building. In 1906 it was rebuilt in Art Nouveau style for a first-class restaurants S. Tararykina (from this time survived granite facing entrances and entry). Once again rebuilt during the neo-classical architect. A. Erichson. Then, in addition to the construction of a cinema and restaurants are saleroom. This restructuring has pointed his classic decorative and compositional traits. Open terraces and pergolas on the roof, the use of stucco decoration of vine motif figuratively anticipate spa buildings of the postwar period, the Stalinist classicism.