This is "Eliseevsky" grocery store on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. Its former owner was millionaire Grigory Eliseev. Grigory Eliseev was the owner of the biggest grocery store on Nevsky Prospect in St.-Petersburg too.
Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya "Corinna of the North"owned and hosted literary and musical salon in THIS BUILDING In the 1820s.
Princess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya,(1792 – 1862), was a Russian writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting. She was an important figure within the Russian culture life in the 19th-century. She was also an amateur opera singer who performed in Paris and London.
She moved to Rome in 1829. She was accompanied by her son and Stepan Shevyrev, the son's tutor. Among her lodgings in Rome were Palazzo Poli, Villa Wolkonsky, and a smaller house in the Via degli Avignonesi. Her salon was frequented by Karl Brullov, Alexander Ivanov, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Vincenzo Camuccini, Stendhal, and Sir Walter Scott. Nikolai Gogol wrote much of Dead Souls at her villa. #1792__1862 #1829 #Aleksandrovna #Alexander #amateur #Avignonesi #Bertel #building #Camuccini #composer #culture #Dead #Eliseev #Eliseevsky #Gogol #Grigory_Eliseev #grocery #grocery_store #house #important #Italy #Ivanov #Kar #l_Brullov #London #millionaire #Moscow #Nevsky #Nevsky_Prospect #Nikolai #old #opera #Palazzo #Paris #Petersburg #poet #Poli #Princess #Prospect #Rome #Russia #Russian #salon #salonist #Scott #singer #Sir #Souls #StPetersburg #St_petersburg #Stendhal #store #Thorvaldsen #Tverskaya #Tverskaya_Street #Villa #Vincenzo #Volkonskaya #Walter #Wolkonsky #writer #Zinaida
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