The «Our Avant-Garde» Dessert by Astoria Hotel

For the new «Our Avant-Garde» exhibition at the Russian Museum (June 21 - December 1, 2025, Benois Wing), Hotel Astoria has created a namesake dessert. The unprecedented «Our Avant-Garde» exhibition presents, for the first time on such a grand scale, a sweeping panorama from the birth of avant-garde to its heyday, showcasing masterpieces by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Marc Chagall, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Tatlin, and other masters. The Russian Museum houses the world's largest, most diverse, and comprehensive collection of Russian avant-garde art. The «Our Avant-Garde» exhibition features over 400 masterpieces across 20 halls, with all but 26 works drawn from the museum's exceptionally rich collection.

For the «Our Avant-Garde» dessert, Hotel Astoria's pastry chef Ekaterina Zhelvakova took medovik — the world's most famous Russian dessert — as her foundation. The inspiration came from Kazimir Malevich's 1916 painting «Suprematism. (Supremus No. 58. Yellow and Black)» from the Russian Museum's collection, created by the founder of Suprematism. The spherical honey cake, with a blackcurrant center, is coated in a thin layer of chocolate velvet and decorated with white and dark chocolate plates. The dessert is served on Imperial Porcelain Factory (IPF) tableware — a manufactory renowned for collaborating with great artists, including Kazimir Malevich: in 1923, they produced a series of Suprematist porcelain, including the famous teapot and half-cup set.

The «Our Avant-Garde» dessert is available in the Rotonda Lounge and Astoria Restaurant until the exhibition ends on December 1, 2025.