restaurant "Palkin" in St. Petersburg Andrei Shmonkin, Dmitry Fedorov, Oleg Sklyar

Passing the gallery

A photo: George Shablovsky

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

Project author: Andrey Shmonkin

Architect: Grigory Mikhailov, Dmitry Fedorov

Designer: Oleg Sklyar

Engineering: Anatoly Rodionov

Glass works (stained glass and other products): Vadim Melamed

Textile: Alla Grigorieva

Painter: Alexander Zadorin

Magazine: N4 (71) 2003

On Nevsky Prospect in the house N 47 the restaurant "Palkin" has opened again. The joke about the fact that in Russia the new is a well-closed old is more than appropriate here: the famous tavern-restaurant received the last visitor in February 1917. In the 18th century, one of the oldest establishments of St. Petersburg was founded by the merchant Anisim Palkin, after nearly a hundred years Palkin moved to Nevsky, from where it was swept away by social cataclysm. For a long history here at different times, but with equal constancy were Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, Bunin and Blok. Even Ulyanov-the average did not disdain dinners in a bourgeois institution, where in December 1905 he spent several secret planning meetings of the newspaper New Life. In the restored restaurant only one original detail has been preserved - the ceiling in the coffee room. The authors and customers decided to abandon the literal reproduction of the historic interior. It was more interesting for them to create a modern space, transferring in it the “merchant” spirit of the old “Palkin”. With his naive and greedy desire for luxury, solid seriousness in matters of gastronomy, heavy worship of the arts. From here - exaggerated paintings with antique plots, tubs with ficus, baroque toilet tables and a massive onyx stand on stands in the form of women's shoes ... truly fashionable Petersburg restaurant. In addition, sturgeon in champagne is still a regular dish here.