The Yar (Russian: Яр, from French "yard") was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky.
[2] The second Yar was opened on the St. Petersburg chaussée built by Adolf Erichson 1909-1913.
It was visited by Leonid Andreev, Konstantin Balmont, Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, Savva Morozov, Grigory Rasputin, and Fyodor Shalyapin.
[3] The current Yar is in the Sovietsky Hotel on Leningradsky Prospect (Moscow).
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