Literaturnoye Kafe (Saint Petersburg)

Literaturnoye Kafe (Russian: Литературное кафе), or Literary Cafe, is a historically significant restaurant on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia, that was frequented by famous writers of Russian literature, including Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and their friends in the nineteenth century.

The confectionery soon became a place where writers of Russian literature, such as Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Taras Shevchenko, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gathered.

[2] In 1837, Pushkin, on the way to his fatal duel with George D'Antès, met his second, Konstantin Danzas, there.

[2] In 1877, after the closure of the confectionery, a high-class restaurant was opened, which musicians such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Feodor Chaliapin frequently visited.

[2] Literaturnoye Kafe occupies two floors of the building, with many pictures of Russian writers hanging on its walls.