About
The Moyka 5 Hotel

Moyka 5 Hotel opened its doors in May 2006. Located on the Moika River embankment, in the historical and cultural center of St. Petersburg, in close proximity to the Cathedral of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the hotel is a five-minute walk from Palace Square and the Hermitage , a ten minute walk from Nevsky Prospekt, Kazan Cathedral and other museums. On the embankment of the Moika River there is also a house where the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin lived.

The hotel consists of 18 standard small cozy rooms with all amenities, 2 superior rooms and 4 deluxe rooms with saunas and Jacuzzi. The deluxe rooms have an original two-level layout. All rooms are equipped with TV, refrigerator, kettle, telephone, safe. Superior rooms have air conditioning. The hotel is equipped with wireless Internet (Wi-Fi), and video surveillance. On the ground floor of the hotel there is a cozy cafe where guests have a free breakfast. The hotel has an art gallery, which presents paintings by contemporary St. Petersburg artists. The gallery is constantly updated.

Tourists are provided with a full range of tourist services, including visa support, registration, transfer from the airport or train station to the hotel and back. Guests can also use the services of laundry, dry cleaning, rent a car with a driver or translator, train or plane tickets.

The history of the hotel building begins in the 18th century, in 1733, when Empress Anna Ionnovna grants the site to her Privy Councilor. Since then, in a house with an unusual fate, at 5, Moika River Embankment, different guests will live: sometimes infamous, sometimes eccentric, but always outstanding and always only the first persons of the state.

In the house, which the architect Stackenschneider in the 1860s would rebuild into the Reserve Palace on the occasion of the wedding of the son of Emperor Nicholas I, the Grand Duke, Mikhail Nikolayevich, the commanders-in-chief, ambassadors and diplomats, senators, and even Naryshkin and Saltykov, favorites of eminent empresses: Elizabeth I, daughters Peter I and Catherine the Great. The former Spare Palace, as it should be in St. Petersburg, a city on the water, is located on the Moika River: the main artery of the city that separates the islands, the Neva River, is within walking distance from the hotel. The picturesque Palace Embankment will lead you to the main street of the city, "5th Avenue" of St. Petersburg - Nevsky Prospekt. "There is nothing better than Nevsky Prospekt, at least in St. Petersburg; for him it is everything!", - so wrote Gogol, a famous Russian writer back in the 19th century. Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens, the Russian Museum and, of course, the world-famous Hermitage on Dvortsovaya embankment - only a part of what you can see while walking through the historic city center.

To do this, you do not need to go anywhere and spend time on the road - just leave the hotel! Any walk around the imperial capital will give you pleasure, because as one writer said, the houses "here, even the most ordinary ones, have the harmony and austerity that only palaces previously had".

History

The Modern Heritage "Moyka, 5" is a five-star hotel that offers you the breathtaking vistas of the heart of Northern Venice.

Here, the past lives alongside the present."Moyka, 5" is situated in the historic center of the Northern Capital. Step right outside to bask in the beauty and the grandeur of the city. Among the treasures of 18th century imperial Saint-Petersburg you will find the Winter Palace, the Summer Garden, the Church of the Savior on Blood, and the State Russian Museum.

Wherever you go, you are bound to discover yet another trace of Imperial Age history. A mere five-minute walk outside the hotel will lead you to the glimmering reflections of the city’s magnificent architectural landscape in the surrounding bodies of water.Back in the 18th century, empress Anna of Russia presented Balk-Polev, her favorite among her privy council, with a gift, a mansion with several spacious apartments. Later, it became the property of a well-known and established nobleman, Senator P.P. Sherbatov.

Sherbatov was a shrewd man: he only lent the apartments to high noblemen, commanders-in chief, and ambassadors. S.K.Naryshkin and S. V. Saltykov – the favorites of two empresses, Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, were also lodgers at Moyka, 5. 1860 was the year of two important events: the marriage of the Tsar's son and the birth of a new palace, known as Zapasnyi. The prince and the princess settled in the New Mihailovskiy Palace, while all the courtiers moved to a new palace with 77 apartments at Moyka, 5.

Only members of the royal family and the most powerful people could have had a palace built at such a spectacular location. The panoramic vistas of the embankments and the majestic Neva river impressed guests from other countries, who referred to the Neva river as 'the sea'. It is important to note that Saint-Petersburg is known as 'The Floating City' and the 'City of Bridges': 342 bridges span over the Neva and 80 other rivers and channels, traversing 42 islands. As a Russian 19th century novelist, N. V. Gogol, wrote once:

"Saint-Petersburg, a dandy at full stretch now, how have you moved over! There are mirrors all around him: the Neva on one side, the Finnish gulf on the other side. Oh, he has mirrors to look at".The Palace Embankment is less than 300 meters away, offering an unforgettable panorama - a view of the Neva and the Hare Island, which was a witness to a number of St. Petersburg’s defining moments in history.