The LEGENDARY Yar (from French "yard") was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. It was famous for its Sokolovsky gypsy choir.The Yar ran from 1826 to 1925 on the street known as Kuznetsky Most.[2]
Moscow Kuznetsky Most Street No.9 in 2008, no longer a restaurant.The second Yar was opened on the St. Petersburg chaussée built by Adolf Erichson 1909-1913.
The current Yar is in the Sovietsky Hotel on Leningradsky Prospect.
