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The Hotel Sovetskiy, Moscow in mainly famous for its restaurant Yar whose remarkable history is given below. The story of the hotel itself is also of great interest.
After being closed for a long period, the restaurant was revived in 1952 and renamed into Sovetskiy. Due to Stalin's order, a hotel complex in Russian Empire style was attached to the hotel. The restaurant shared the name with the new hotel and made it famous, for during that time it was a governmental hotel-restaurant complex. Among the visitors at different time have been Joseph Stalin, his son Vassily Stalin (room 301 bears his name), Margaret Thatcher, German bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer, Indira Gandhi, King of Spain Juan Karlos, Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Pierre Cardin.
Competent management, attentive personnel, excellent service and the remarkable history make the Hotel Sovetskiy a place where you want to return. The restaurant Yar has been awarded in many categories in the recent years. Among then are the Golden Crane (2000, 2001),the Crystal Castle (2000) - nomination "The Best Branch Restaurant with Long History and Traditions", Russian Style (2000) - nomination "Revival of Russian Hospitality Tradition". The restaurant variety show and its traditional national food were also recognized at many festivals.
Though the restaurant got its historic name, the hotel has retained the name it was given during the Soviet period. The Soviet Flag on top of the building has also remained. But the service and the interior of the hotel meet the European quality standards. All rooms have individual interior design, luxury rooms have walls covered with tapestry. The prevailing customers are business people; many of them become regular customers after they stay in the Sovetskiy once. The hotel also enjoys popularity among Russian and foreign tourists.
The hotel Sovetskiy, Moscow is notable first of all for its restaurant Yar which history will be described later. However, the destiny of the hotel itself is no less interesting.
The Hotel Sovetskiy, Moscow, is always glad to welcome guests and offers them 100 rooms of different categories and sizes. All rooms keep the spirit and color of the previous epoch and at the same time have all modern conveniences. The cost of rooms includes breakfast in the Green bar of the Yar Restaurant.
Location of hotel Sovetskiy
Located on one of the busiest highways in Moscow, Leningradsky Prospekt, the Sovetskiy Hotel is just two metro stations away from the city center. The hotel offers you plenty of entertainment options, since in the very building of the Sovetsky is the gypsy theater "Roman" and the major sights of the Russian capital, including the Red Square, the Kremlin, the Church of Christ the Savior and the Tretyakov Gallery, are just a 10-minute ride away. It won't take you very long either to get to the Actor Hotel, Parus (the Sail) business center, the Expo Center on Krasnaya Presnya, All-Russia Exhibition Center, Olympijsky sports complex, Dinamo stadium, and the Moscow horse-racing track.
Out of all the railway stations the Belorussky is the nearest; however, within 10-15 minutes you'll be able to get to any other. In 30 minutes you can get to the Sheremetyevo Airport, and in an hour - to the Domodedovo.
Services in hotel Sovetskiy
The range of services offered by the Hotel Sovetskiy is much wider than that of a standard three-star hotel:
24-hour room service
Taxi reservation
Billiards
Pets are allowed; walking dogs upon request
24-hour access to the internet
Booking airplane and train tickets
Booking theater tickets
Medical room
Free parking place
Laundry
Fresh newspapers and magazines
Currency exchange
Clothes repair
Individual safe
Luggage room
Dry cleaning
Dancing lessons
Night club
Restaurant
Business center
Conference hall
Restaurants in hotel Sovetskiy
No other restaurant of the capital can boast such a number of celebrities who have been its guests and such a rich history. The restaurant started not in Leningradsky Avenue, but on the Kuznetsky Bridge. Exactly there in 1826 a Frenchman whose name was Tranquille Jard opened his Yar Restaurant frequented by the poet Alexander Pushkin. Later on, in the second half of the 19th century, the Yar moved into General Bashilov's country-house. Its guests were Savva Morozov, Rasputin, Levitan, Repin, Plevako, Shalyapin, Chekhov, Kouprin, Gorky and Nikita Khruschyov.
Part of the restaurant's history is special "restaurant entertainments": partying accompanied by breaking bottles against the Venetian mirrors and smearing the waiters with mustard. Guests who had taken too much alcohol had their address written on their back - for the cabmen to know where exactly to take them. Certainly, no one is going to smear the waiter's face with mustard nowadays, but the atmosphere at the restaurant is not less warm and welcoming now than before.
Before the Revolution the Yar was considered the best restaurant in Europe and Russia. You can still find the old Yar mentioned in songs, jokes and films - the film "A Man from the Restaurant" was shot here in 1916; writers used the restaurant as the settings for their stories. However, the year of 1918 changed everything: the stucco moulding was torn off from the ceiling, the fountain and garden were levelled to the ground, the restaurant was closed. Instead, during more than 30 years that followed the building housed a cinema, a gym for the Red Army soldiers, a hospital, a cinema college, the All-Union State Institute of Culture and the Pilot House. In 1952 the restaurant was opened anew and called Sovetskiy. It became known as a "restaurant for the privileged" - diplomats, party leaders and their confidants. In those times the Sovetsky was repeatedly awarded pennons and honourable prizes.
The 1950's have seen a curious incident. On the menu of the restaurant that had always been renowned for its cuisine was Soviet whisky produced by instructions given personally by Khruschyov. A well-known actor that was doing the part of Lenin at that time decided to try the rare drink and appeared in the restaurant in make-up and dressed as Lenin. The guests and personnel literally stiffened with astonishment seeing live Vladimir Ilyich who asked for "a couple of bottles" burring and added that it had become too cold in the Kremlin lately. Only the head waiter was not taken aback. He brought four bottles instead of the required two saying, "These are for Vladimir Ilyich, and these two are for Nadezhda Konstantinovna" (Lenin's wife).
Time passed, and the restaurant fell into decay, but it was revived in 1998 with its original name - the Yar. The manager of the restaurant and the Sovetsky Hotel V. Maksimov intends to make the Yar a restaurant number one again.
Today the interior of the restaurant is being renewed to look exactly as it did before. Part of the old Russian kitchen has survived. The traditions of the restaurant are being revived - there had always been Gipsy, Hungarian and Russian choirs here, as well as dancers, cabaret singers and circus artistes. Now their successors are the "Moskva... Zlatyye Kupola" Show and Gipsies, of course: the hotel building houses the Gipsy theatre Romen.
