OLD HOTEL? NO, THE EUROPEAN HOTEL.
OLD HOTEL? NO, THE EUROPEAN HOTEL.
I am a Muscovite, have arrived to Nizhni Novgorod on office affairs,
Has stopped in hotel "Volga slope". Has chosen this hotel not
Only because in him stay Mstislav Rostropovich with Galina
Vishnevskaya, Irina Khakamada, Gennady Seleznev, Victor Tchernomyrdin
And many other things known people. My choice is first of all
Long-term habit: in Bottom (then still Bitter) I come years
Already etak twenty. And every time I live in this hotel,
Which, as well as a city, has changed the name: "Russia" became
"The Volga slope".
Well I remember, what was "Russia". Certainly, a magnificent kind
On zavolzhskie open spaces always made the strongest impression.
But the old hotel was... Simply old hotel. Once, in
80, my arrival in Bottom has happily coincided with tours here
Great musician Svjatoslava Richter.
He lived in the same hotel! I, having taken courage, was knocked
To it in number - to ask the autograph (in Moscow to me it hardly
It would be possible). I remember, how, talking to Richter, imperceptibly
Looked round: knew, that him have lodged in best "lux" of this
Hotels. Well and "lux" it was, I will report on you!
Despite the whole three rooms, number reminded almost
Working hostel: the shabby furniture, the peeled paths, taste,
A cosiness. In completion to all has noticed: from under a door jamb
The cockroach has run out... However, these nice lodgers I
Observed and in modest number.
Now - absolutely an another matter. The hotel changes on eyes.
My single room differs nothing from numbers in the worthy
Four-stars hotels in the West (thus, that the price much
More low). Number registration is not simply new furniture, but also
Distinct design idea. I like service:
It is felt, that in hotel the order, and employees perfectly reigns
Are trained. Their friendly relation to visitors as it seems to me,
It is caused not only that they value the workplace
(Though also to it, of course, too: as it was found out, the salary, for example,
The parlourmaid - 1500 roubles).
Affability of all personnel of hotel is natural
Part of the whole, new style "Volga slope", turned in
The present modern hotel of the European class. (By the way, opinion
Europeans - same, it were confirmed with Italians, which
Live on one floor with me.) in hotel silently, purely, easy -
Word, you feel at home.
In this arrival to Bottom I has met a management
"Slope". The director of hotel Irina Serebryakov has accepted me in the
Office as it is hospitable, as receives visitors and itself "Volga
Slope ". And then Irina Antonovna has arranged to me excursion on floors.
Have begun with a lobby which already and has strongly changed today, but
Much is planned still. I have seen and new salon-hairdressing salon,
All "with igolochki", in vanguard style (and then we for comparison
Have glanced in an old hairdressing salon. Simply words are not present! An illustration to
To the slogan "Two worlds - two systems"). Have looked new bars, anew
Trimmed numbers with snow-white bathrooms, with the small
kuhonkami where the visitor can prepare for itself morning coffee or
Easy supper. However, as has told Serebryakov, any desire
The visitor in a genre of a supper, a dinner, the European or Russian breakfast
Here it will be immediately executed with delivery in number.
We have finished "excursion" in that number, where
Richter stopped. Where ragged "hostel" has got to?
Elegant three-room "lux" is worthy the most captious
The client. Here only Svjatoslav Teofilovich will not arrive any more...
Much has left for the last years. Nizhegorodtsy know it better
Me: some regret till now, that hotels "Moscow" were lost
And "Sormovsky". But there is "Russia"! With a new name "Volga
The slope "it blossoms and promises to become the best hotel of a city. At
Directors - set of interesting plans.
Especially I liked intention to construct nearby a chapel.
After all it is known - a place sacred, before here there was a temple, here and
There was a thought to restore at least a part of that was.
Irina KRAVCHENKO.
//* an information Source: AiF - Nizhni Novgorod, 12.04.00
//* Reg. Nom. - 1100400022.29-------------------------------------------
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