VLADIVOSTOK: A HISTORIC WALKING TOUR 

GOLDEN HORN HOTEL

     Owned originally by local architect V. K. Goldenstedt, the building on the corner of Svetlanskaya and Aleutskaya Streets served as one of Vladivostok’s best-known hotels for many years.  It was opened as the Central Hotel and kept that name until the Revolution, when it was changed to the Zolotoy Rog (Golden Horn) hotel.  The ground floor was used for the offices and pharmacy of the Waldecker and Peppel Company, which had affiliates all over Russia and abroad.  When the construction of the building began in 1907, one of the local newspapers wrote that the furniture of this hotel  would eclipse that of all existing hotels in Vladivostok.

     Designed in what some critics have named the “rational variety of art

                                                                                     EH, 1995

nouveau,” the building seems somewhat severe, but the façade is embellished with decorative bricks, and the peaked towers that crown the roof represent certain Gothic elements.  This mixture of art nouveau with other styles is typical of Vladivostok’s historic architecture.

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