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Western fine dining establishment, the dishes were quite affordable, and in the 1980s, the restaurant became a popular place for weddings. Its history as formerly the only foreign restaurant in Beijing has made it a site of nostalgia of older residents; despite the government's best efforts to remove all Soviet influence in the 1960s, the admiration for Soviet culture lived on.
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Restaurant became a status symbol of modernity. Despite many being unaccustomed to
Russian cuisine, young people saved up so that they could go to the restaurant. Representative of the admiration held for the Soviet Union at the time, one man saved his money for three months in order to take his girlfriend to the Moscow Restaurant, where he proposed to her while singing
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After the restaurant opened to the general public and started accepting cash, the high prices made the opportunity to dine at the Moscow
Restaurant a rare and prized event. With the Chinese government portraying the Soviet Union as a prosperous utopia that China would soon achieve as well, the Moscow
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and facing new challenges from the market, the restaurant slowly changed its operational mode, and on
November 7, 1984, the restaurant reverted to its original name. No longer limited to the politically and economically privileged, the Moscow Restaurant became well known across the city. Despite its
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With ballroom chandeliers and towering pillars, the restaurant covers 1,300 square metres (14,000 sq ft) and has a current capacity of 600 people. The restaurant underwent renovations in 2000, with its style differing from how it looked in 1954. After complaints from patrons who preferred
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The Moscow
Restaurant remained popular until the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s, and the restaurant was denounced as counter-revolutionary. Soviet cultural import began to be prohibited, and the Chinese government renamed the Soviet Exhibition Center to the Beijing Exhibition Center. The restaurant
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the older look, the restaurant was renovated again in 2009 to restore the Moscow
Restaurant to its original style. Rarely changing its menu, the Moscow Restaurant still serves typical Russian fare as well as dishes common in Western fine dining, such as
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In the 1950s, the restaurant first served Soviet visitors such as ambassadors, advisors, and scientists, as well as
Chinese students that had returned from studying in the Soviet Union. During the Moscow Restaurant's grand opening, then-Premiere
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and let
Chinese citizens learn more about life and culture in the Soviet Union. As one of the "Sino-Soviet friendship buildings", it was part of an attempt to modernize China by modelling the nation after the Soviet Union.
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Like the rest of the
Beijing Exhibition Center complex, the Moscow Restaurant was designed by Soviet architects. Originally named the Soviet Exhibition Center, the project was intended to showcase the modernity of
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