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The Hermitage Restaurant (Moscow)
the Hermitage
also: Эрмитаж, Ermitazh
A celebrated Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square (run by the Frenchman Lucien Olivier, inventor of the salad that bears his name), a fashionable rival to the Slavic Bazaar and a favorite haunt of Moscow's merchants, journalists, and literary men; not to be confused with the separate Hermitage pleasure garden.
Reading notes
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 10 January 1886. Moscow. §5 "Hermitage"
The Hermitage, a fashionable Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square run by the Frenchman Lucien Olivier (inventor of the eponymous salad), a favorite meeting place for Moscow's journalists, merchants, and literary men.
- To P. G. Rozanov, 14 January 1886. Moscow. §5 the Hermitage
The Hermitage, a fashionable Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square run by the Frenchman Lucien Olivier (inventor of the eponymous salad), a favorite haunt of Moscow's journalists, merchants, and literary men, and a frequent first stop on a night out.
- To A. S. Lazarev, 30 June 1887. Babkino. §4 Hermitage
The fashionable Hermitage restaurant in Moscow, a common venue for Chekhov's dinners and outings with literary friends.
- To F. O. Shekhtel, 24 January 1892. Moscow. §3 Hermitage
"Эрмитаж" -- presumably the well-known Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square (not the separate Hermitage pleasure garden), named here alongside "medicine" as one of two jesting possible items on which Chekhov asks whether Shekhtel has any instructions for him.
- To N. N. Obolonsky, 9 March 1890. Moscow. §3 the "Hermitage,"
A celebrated Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square, run by the Frenchman Lucien Olivier (inventor of the salad that bears his name) -- a fashionable, relatively formal dining venue and favorite haunt of Moscow's merchants, journalists, and literary men. Maria Pavlovna's proposal to sup rather than dine there, or better yet to eat privately, trades on the Hermitage's status as an occasion for a proper sit-down dinner rather than a casual meal; not to be confused with the separate Hermitage pleasure garden also mentioned elsewhere in this corpus.
- At the Telephone §23 the Hermitage
A second celebrated Moscow restaurant, on Trubnaya Square, run by the Frenchman Lucien Olivier (inventor of the eponymous salad); like the Slavic Bazaar, prestigious enough to be an early telephone subscriber, and the two venues' near-identical, easily confused status drives the story's running joke of misdirected calls.
- Visiting Friends §14 Hermitage
A fashionable Moscow restaurant on Trubnaya Square, a rival to the Slavyansky Bazaar and a favorite haunt of merchants and journalists.