The Londonska Hotel is a historic
four star 19th century
hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
in the center of
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrati ...
,
Ukraine
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, belonging to the same company as the nearby
Bristol Hotel.
Description
The stylish four star 19th century hotel is in the centre of Odesa. It belongs to the same company as the nearby five-star ''
Bristol Hotel'' which is roughly twice the size.
Early history
The building housing the Londonskaya Hotel was originally constructed between 1826–1828 as a private residence, designed by architect
Francesco Boffo
Francesco Carlo Boffo (Cyrillic: Франц Карлович Боффо; 8 September 1796 – Kherson, Cherson, 10 November 1867) was a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odessa between 1818 a ...
in the early Italian Renaissance style. The hotel was opened in 1846 by Jean-Batiste Karuta, a French confectioner. It was significantly remodeled from 1899–1900 by architect J.M. Dmitrenko, and renovated in 1988.
The name of the hotel, like the nearby ''Bristol Hotel'', is thought to have suggested luxury at that time.
Famous Guests
Famous guests of the hotel have included: Emperor
Pedro II of Brazil,
Anton Chekhov
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,
Alexander Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (russian: link=no, Александр Иванович Куприн; – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels ''The Duel'' (1905)Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography ''A ...
,
Robert Louis Stevenson
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,
Ivan Ayvazovsky,
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.
Life
The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnièr ...
,
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
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* Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist) (1797–1854), Finnish entomologist and governor
* Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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,
Theodore Dreiser,
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He ...
,
Elsa Triolet,
Isadora Duncan,
Marcello Mastroianni
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,
Nikita Mikhalkov,
Oleg Yankovsky,
Vladimir Putin
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,
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
As an informal leader of th ...
,
Leonid Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corru ...
,
Jean Claude van Damme,
Paolo Coelho
Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more books ...
.
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References
External links
Official website
{{Odesa
Hotels in Odesa
Buildings and structures in Odesa
Hotel buildings completed in 1828
1828 establishments in the Russian Empire
Hotels established in 1846
1846 establishments in the Russian Empire
Victorian architecture in Ukraineіі