1 · Position
A restaurant-club at Kuznetsky Most 6/3, building 3, in the centre of Moscow, near where the Neglinka once ran and where the city’s first bookshop stood. The kitchen was French under Régis Trigel, with dishes carrying a Russian influence. It belonged to Arkady Novikov, whose houses this register holds elsewhere.
2 · ⚑ The interior is the record
Baroque in the style Moscow society favoured — gilding, scales, cyphers, cherubs and gold chandeliers — set against walls of rough exposed brick left from the previous version of the house. Contemporary description reaches for Louis XIV’s palaces and for the old Parisian Grand Cafés where nineteenth-century intellectuals gathered. The gold was applied over the bare brick of what stood there before, and neither was hidden: the room stated its own succession, which is the thing this entry keeps.
3 · ⚑ The address has changed hands three times and the Library records the sequence, not just the closure
The Most gave way to Brasserie Мост, described as the project of Alexander Mamut and the lawyer Alexander Rappoport, which took about six months to open and dropped the article The while adding the French word. In 2025 Arkady Novikov opened the brasserie “Kuznetsky Most” on the same site, with interiors reworked by Evgenia Uzhegova and Igor Kornev as brand chef. Three restaurants, one address, and the name shortening each time. ⚑ The Library’s own timeline dates the sequence more closely than the sources read for this entry: Brasserie Мост closed in 2020, ending the house that began as the club, and Novikov reopened the address in 2025 with Kaifuso in the old club basement. That was already in the register and not in this page — a reminder that the chronology is the Library’s best instrument for finding what an entry has missed. Under §6.1 the published address is never deleted, and this row exists so that the succession is legible rather than the last occupant standing alone.
4 · Candour
⚑ The dates are the weakness of this entry and it says so. Nothing in these sources establishes when The Most opened or when it closed; the successors are dated only by the articles announcing them. Whether Brasserie Мост and the 2025 brasserie are two successive houses or one renamed is not established here — the accounts name different owners, which suggests two, and the Library does not resolve it on that inference alone. ⚑ Arkady Novikov is not in Part IX.