In this corner house at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and the Moika embankment, there was once the first Eliseev store. But the most famous house brought the famous confectionery Wolf and Beranzhe. Here he met with his second Danzas A.S. Pushkin on the way to a duel. Lermontov, Dostoevsky Chernyshevsky stayed in this cafe. They say that in this cafe, and in the absence of boiled water PI. Tchaikovsky was served raw water and a few days later he died from cholera. Today, the cafe revived the tradition of literary readings and it has an excellent pastry shop. Translated with Google Translate