The collection of the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History contains several hundred different postcards, including those depicting views of Tsaritsyn. They are an important source of information on how the city looked in different periods.
Five different postcards, published in 1903, 1909, 1913 and 1919, show the hotel “Stolichnye Nomera”. The pictures were taken from different angles, for example one postcard depicts a small structure with a tower — the Tsaritsyn fire observation tower — not far from the hotel.
This postcard shows not only “Stolichnye Nomera”, but also the former Elizavetinsky Square, which was renamed into Gogol Garden after a monument to the writer was erected for his 100th anniversary in 1909. Thanks to this postcard it was possible to determine that the same building also housed a number of businesses. “Singer” sewing machines, toys, tobacco and wine were sold there.
In the early 20th century, there was no color photography yet, so photographic postcards were sometimes hand-painted. This is the only way to find out what the town of Tsaritsyn looked like in color at the time.
The “Stolichnye Nomera” hotel, which was housed in a three-story building, was one of the best and most prestigious establishments in the city. It was founded in 1890 by the merchant of the first guild, Vasily Fyodorovich Voronin, an honorary citizen of Tsaritsyn. Initially it had 75 rooms. The hotel was built in several stages and expanded several times to eventually occupy the entire quarter.
The rectangular building overlooked Aleksandrovskaya Square with its main facade. The left side faced Pushkinskaya Street. Apart from the hotel, the building housed other facilities, including a concert hall and the “Bouff” theater, as well as the Tsaritsyn stock exchange, where local merchants concluded major trade deals on timber, fish, oil and other goods. As one of the contemporaries wrote, in the restaurant “large deals for tens of thousands of poods of caviar, sturgeon and herring were made over wine and snacks, to the tunes of French chansonettes”.
The building survived the heavy fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad, but was demolished in the late 1940s. At present, the “Volgograd” hotel (called “Stalingrad” until 1961) stands on the foundations of the “Stolichnye Nomera”.
Five different postcards, published in 1903, 1909, 1913 and 1919, show the hotel “Stolichnye Nomera”. The pictures were taken from different angles, for example one postcard depicts a small structure with a tower — the Tsaritsyn fire observation tower — not far from the hotel.
This postcard shows not only “Stolichnye Nomera”, but also the former Elizavetinsky Square, which was renamed into Gogol Garden after a monument to the writer was erected for his 100th anniversary in 1909. Thanks to this postcard it was possible to determine that the same building also housed a number of businesses. “Singer” sewing machines, toys, tobacco and wine were sold there.
In the early 20th century, there was no color photography yet, so photographic postcards were sometimes hand-painted. This is the only way to find out what the town of Tsaritsyn looked like in color at the time.
The “Stolichnye Nomera” hotel, which was housed in a three-story building, was one of the best and most prestigious establishments in the city. It was founded in 1890 by the merchant of the first guild, Vasily Fyodorovich Voronin, an honorary citizen of Tsaritsyn. Initially it had 75 rooms. The hotel was built in several stages and expanded several times to eventually occupy the entire quarter.
The rectangular building overlooked Aleksandrovskaya Square with its main facade. The left side faced Pushkinskaya Street. Apart from the hotel, the building housed other facilities, including a concert hall and the “Bouff” theater, as well as the Tsaritsyn stock exchange, where local merchants concluded major trade deals on timber, fish, oil and other goods. As one of the contemporaries wrote, in the restaurant “large deals for tens of thousands of poods of caviar, sturgeon and herring were made over wine and snacks, to the tunes of French chansonettes”.
The building survived the heavy fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad, but was demolished in the late 1940s. At present, the “Volgograd” hotel (called “Stalingrad” until 1961) stands on the foundations of the “Stolichnye Nomera”.
