Coffee-flavored Petersburg
Description:
We will walk along the Nevsky and not only (there will be interesting cozy courtyards), we will see the very places where the first coffee shops were once, we will talk about how coffee got to St. Petersburg under Peter I, we will discuss avid St. Petersburg coffee lovers (Ekaterina II and Anna Akhmatov) and those who were in love with coffee and St. Petersburg (Honore de Balzac and A. S. Pushkin). Let’s talk about how coffee inspired creative people to create masterpieces, and in particular how J.O. Bach created his coffee cantata. We will discuss the culture of coffee consumption in pre-revolutionary and modern St. Petersburg.
Learn about the tradition of suspended coffee. We will be inspired by the recipe of coffee in Petersburg.
And of course, drink coffee in the best coffee shops in the city!