Yar (restaurant)
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The Yar (Яр, from French "yard") was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. It was famous for its Sokolovsky gypsy choir.[1] The Yar ran from 1826 to 1925 on the street known as Kuznetsky Most.[2]
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Moscow Kuznetsky Most Street No.9 in 2008, no longer a restaurant
The second Yar was opened on the St. Petersburg chaussée built by Adolf Erichson 1909-1913.
The current Yar is in the Sovietsky Hotel on Leningradsky Prospect.[3]
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