For more than three centuries, the café has been a place of freedom, emblematic of intellectual life on the Old Continent. There, thinkers, writers and artists meet. Ideas boil through conversations, before crystallizing in works and spreading in society. Travel among those illustrious cafes that the Encyclopedia called "spirit factories".
It is a place just reborn after a terrible century where bursts of light and eclipses alternated.
In this, the fate of the Art Pub, in the Arbat district of Moscow, reflects both this mixture of creative dazzling and plunging into obscurity that Russia has always aroused.
The passion for literature has never left the Russians - nor the Soviets, in seven decades of “communism”.
In the poetic firmament, the great Alexander Pushkin remains an omnipresent reference to this day.
It is therefore natural that Alexander Anikeyev evokes the prince of poets, by presenting
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