Escultura

The bronze cat sits enthroned at one of the most distinguished sites of Saint-Petersburg, on the Malaya Sadovaya front of the beautiful Art Nouveau Elisseeff Emporium--– the Elisseeff family, now living in emigration, prefers this spelling instead of the phonetic Yeliseyev –, which was built in 1903 on the Nevsky Prospekt and has maintained its original function for more than a century. The tomcat is called Yelisey after the house.