Angleterre Hotel

The Angleterre (Russian: Англетер) Hotel is a modern, luxury business-class hotel on Voznesensky Prospekt at Saint Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia originally built in the 1850s. The hotel has 193 rooms, including five suites.

History

The hotel's name means 'Hotel England' in French, and it was changed after the Russian Revolution, first to Hotel International (1919-1925) and then Hotel Leningradskaya from 1948 to the early 1970s. It is famous in Russia as the place where poet Sergei Yesenin hanged himself in 1925.

In 1987, during Perestroika, the city authorities decided to demolish the building, and members of the public gathered on St. Isaac's Square to protest the plan. It was the first major public protest in the history of the Soviet Union to be left unpunished by the authorities. Although the building was ultimately destroyed, a new hotel with a facade in the style of the original, was constructed on the site in 1991.

Today, the hotel is owned and managed by the The Rocco Forte Collection, the same group who manages the adjacent Hotel Astoria. It is marketed as the business-class wing of its more luxurious sister. The upper-floor guest rooms of the two hotels are connected.

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