Grand Hotel Europe
The Belmond Grand Hotel Europe (; known as Hotel Evropeiskaya during the Soviet period), is a five-star hotel on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. History. One of the great hotels of the 19th-century Europe, the Grand Hotel Europe opened its doors to the public on 28 January 1875, replacing an earlier inn situated on the same site. In the 1910s, the hotel was remodeled in the Art Nouveau style to designs by Fyodor Lidval and Leon Benois. The latest major renovation was carried out between 1989 and 1991. The hotel was featured in the 1995  James Bond movie "GoldenEye". However, the movie was not filmed at the hotel, the exterior used was actually the Langham Hotel, London, while the interiors were sets. Its marble-and-gilt interiors, sweeping staircases and elegant furniture have attracted crowds of well-to-do visitors, including Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Elton John, Bill Clinton, Ivan Turgenev, Claude Debussy, H. G. Wells, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav V of Sweden and Jacques Chirac to name only a few notables who lodged there. The hotel was renamed the 'Belmond Grand Hotel Europe' in 2014 when its parent company, Orient-Express Hotels, was renamed Belmond Ltd.