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| Image: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters |
On April 11 Eliseevsky, Moscow's most famous and luxurious Soviet store, closed its doors one final time.
"Opened in 1901 in a former 18th-century palace, it served originally as a luxury food shop for pre-Revolutionary, upper-crust denizens of central Moscow. But it saw its heyday in the later Soviet period when, as “Gastronome No. 1,” it acted as a display window for visitors to the Soviet capital to showcase the city’s purportedly excellent provisioning."
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