Address: Teatralny proezd, 3
“At Moscow we found a carriage and porter waiting for “Dusaux Hotel,” to which we were bound”
“At Moscow we found a carriage and porter waiting for “Dusaux Hotel,” to which we were bound”
According
to “Handbook for travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland” edited in 1865,
“Hotel Dusaux”, near the Kremlin, was suitable for “the independent traveller,
who prefers a French cuisine and an apartment of greater luxe, or one who has
the prejudice of his class against herding with his countrymen
abroad”.[1] Monsieur
Dusaux is described “as a pattern landlord—courteous, unassuming, obliging,
attentive to his guests”.[2]
Having
been for some years chef in the establishment of an ambassador of his own
country, he looked after the cuisine of his own hotel with a never-failing
solicitude and left the general management of the house to an active and
intelligent German intendant who spoke English fluently and knew everything in Moscow.
