Hotel Astoria
St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia. Located on the Arts square, close to the Hermitage museum and the Winter Palace square.

12 dates from the archives of Grand Hotels of the World.
Initial construcion of the Building as a residential appartment house.
Acquisition of the building by a newly created corportaion called « Hotel Jewropeiskaja ».
Opening of the Grand Hotel.
Renovation of the Hotel giving an Art Nouveau style with becors by Fyodor Lidval and Leon Benois.
The Hotel is confiscated by the Bolchevic regime after the Russian Revolution.
During the Nazi blokade of St Petersburg the Hotel is transformed into a military hospital with 1300 beds.
Reopening as a Hotel Jewropeiskaja.
Major Renovation of the Hotel.
Reopening as « Grand Hotel Europe » under the Kempinski Brand.
Acquisition by Orient Express Hotels.
Photoshooting by Appelrath Cüper with the models Katrin Thormann and Geoffroy Jonckheere.
Renovation
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