Grand Hotel Europe

The Grand Hotel Europe, A Belmond Hotel (Russian: Гранд Отель Европа) is a historic five-star luxury hotel on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

For other uses, see Hotel Europe.

Grand Hotel Europe
General information
TypeHotel
Town or citySaint Petersburg
CountryRussia
Opened1875
Height
ArchitecturalArt Nouveau
Design and construction
Architect(s)Fyodor Lidval
Leon Benois
The hotel is situated at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Mikhailovskaya Street.
Share of the St. Petersburg company "Hotel Europe", issued 1873

History

One of the great hotels of 19th-century Europe, the Grand Hotel d'Europe opened on 28 January 1875, replacing an earlier inn situated on the same site.

In the 1910s, the hotel was remodeled in the Art Nouveau style to designs by Fyodor Lidval and Leon Benois. During the Soviet period, the hotel was known as the Hotel Evropeiskaya. It was completely restored between 1989 and 1991[1] and reopened in December 1991, managed by the Swedish Reso Hotels chain as the Reso Grand Hotel Europe.[2]

The hotel was featured in the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye. However, the movie was not filmed at the hotel, the exterior used was actually the Langham Hotel, London, while the interiors were sets.

Its marble-and-gilt interiors, sweeping staircases and elegant furniture have attracted crowds of well-to-do visitors, including Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Elton John, Bill Clinton,[3] Ivan Turgenev, Claude Debussy, H. G. Wells, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav V of Sweden, Jacques Chirac and Bo Savander to name only a few notables who lodged there.

The hotel was renamed the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe in 2014 when its parent company, Orient-Express Hotels, was renamed Belmond Ltd.

References
  1. "Belmond Grand Hotel Europe (1875), St. Petersburg | Historic Hotels of the World-Then&Now".
  2. Bivens, Matt (22 June 1993). "Changing Lifestyles : Russia Has New Luxury--and Some Old Habits : Ritzy hotel staffed by 'heroes of capitalist labor' is thriving". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  3. "Belmond Grand Hotel Europe". www.inyourpocket.com. UAB In Your Pocket. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  • Bogdanov, I. A. (1999). Гранд-отель Европа в Санкт-Петербурге [Grand Hotel Europe in Saint Petersburg] (in Russian). Saint Petersburg.

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