History

The Filippov dynasty keeps in people memory - these are the high craftsmanship of bakers, the tireless labor and search. The main thing - this is tasty Russian bread.

Founder of the future large bread matter, Maxim Filippov, arrived to Moscow from the Kaluga province in the beginning of the XVIII century. By entire family it baked and sold popular hot kalatches (kind of fancy loaf) and pies with the diverse filling. After its death the matter continued the son Ivan, the future famous and given affection by imperial favor baker.

To increase and to prosperity of this matter to a considerable degree contributed the skillfully thought-out connection field - counter. Ivan to the questions, about the high quality of bread willingly explained

- «yes because bread concern loves. Baking - that by baking, and Mukata in me its».

The following successful undertaking Of Filippov became the organization of system the bakery-store, where it was possible to purchase bread and fancy loaf directly from the furnace. Buyers arranged both the assortment and the price of fresh bread. True, it proved by Filippov, that in Petersburg such kalatches and rolls will not leave: - «water of Neva river does not befit!»

Therefore its kalatches «to flame, to heat» in the separately closed fake ducts accurately reached to the breakfast into the Winter Palace. Soon he became the official supplier of the Imperial Court and opened his first bakery in the city of Saint Petersburg.

The famous Filippov bakery was on Nevsky Ave., 142.

In those times the dictator of Moscow was General Zakrevsky. Each morning hot rolls by Filippov's bakery were delivered his tea table:

- What is the abomination! Call out baker Filippov! - began to bawl somehow lord after the morning tea. Servants, without understanding, in what the matter, they brought to the authorities of frightened Filippov.

- What is it? Cockroach?! - and fusses roll with the baked cockroach.

- What is it?! A?

- It is very even simple, Your Excellency, turns before himself roll old man.

- What is about...? What is about...? Is it simple?!

- this is raisin!

And piece with the cockroach ate.

- you will lie, villain! Perhaps rolls with the raisin ? Go away!

Filippov run to the bakery, gripped the sieve of raisins, yes even threw out into the sayechnoye dough, to the great horror of bakers. In the hour of the Filippov it entertained Zakrevskogo by rolls with the raisin, but in a day there was ring-off not from the buyers.

- «I is very simple! Everything auto leaves, to catch know how», - said Ivan.

Ivan Filippov, according to the steady tradition, among the Russian owners and the merchants, many means and attention gave the charity. Long years he was the member of the council of Moscow orphanages and Sushchevskogo department of trusteeship about the poor in Moscow.

Was high its authority, also, of the «Moscow merchant society», in the municipal duma (city parlament), where he was opened. For the merits in the business affair it was rewarded with the order St.Annas the II degree.

Mens grow prettier by commercial vein Dmitriy Filippov it were not limited only to the bakery matter. On the left side of its building on the Tver in 1911 it equipped excellent hotel «Luxus» (today called «Central»).

Supporting the membory of merchants Filippov and desiring to preserve their good reputation, we opened hotel Filippov at the house, on Nevsky Ave. 142, where one of the most famous Filippov's bakery was founded in St. Petersburg.