None of the Moscow hotels can boast that Vasily Iosifovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili), the youngest son of the Leader of the Peoples, lived under its roof. The Sovetskaya Hotel has become a haven and a place of riotous life for its most unusual guest. The memorial number "301" still preserves the memory of Vasily Stalin. It is called the "Stalin apartment", but many have begun to forget why this happened. A tour of the historical interiors of the hotel and the famous Moscow restaurant will reveal this secret. This is how the history of this institution developed, it was not the hotel that glorified the restaurant, but the restaurant that glorified the hotel.

We will learn about all the intricacies of the history of the building where the Sovetskaya Hotel and the Yar restaurant are located today during the tour. At the end of the tour, you will have a tea party with a tasting of "Pushkin dessert" (optional). These are raspberry soup (raspberry puree, rhubarb jelly, vanillin, sugar, apple juice), cupcake and brewed black tea in a teapot.

During the tour you will see:
The luxurious hall of the restaurant "Yar". The elegant hall "Mirrorny".
The lobby and bar of the restaurant, decorated with oak. The room where one of the pre-revolutionary owners of the restaurant liked to spend time over a cup of coffee.
The halls of the hotel, the Empire stairs and the courtyard of the hotel. Portraits of Soviet leaders and a replica of the fountain that stood in the park near the Bolshoi Theater.
The Venetian glass mirror that Rasputin almost broke with a champagne cork
You will also learn the history of the Yar restaurant and the history of the Sovetskaya Hotel. Who painted the ceiling of the main hall of the restaurant.
How the restaurant's customers spent their time in different eras.
Why did Vasily Stalin stay at the Sovetskaya Hotel? And some pages of his personal life.

The duration of the tour of the hotel is about 2.5 hours.

The tour starts and the group gathers in the center of the hall of the Dynamo metro station.
The tour route is about 20 minutes on foot from the Dynamo metro station to the Sovetskaya Hotel with a short story about the history of the station.

The tour is conducted using a voice amplification system.
Part of the tour takes place outside. When passing from the metro to the Sovetskaya Hotel, there are two descents into the underpasses.
Inside the hotel there are stairs up to the 4th floor and access to the courtyard of the hotel.

A tasting of the Pushkin dessert is possible for an additional fee (optional): Raspberry soup according to the recipe of the restaurant Yar. Ingredients: raspberry puree, apple juice, rhubarb jelly, vanillin, sugar. Cupcake, tea in the kettle.

The cost of the tour per person for a group of 20 people is 2,800 rubles.