Painting of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez “Innkeeper.” The size of the picture is 100 x 122 cm, canvas, oil. The painting of the Sevil painter Velasquez from the cycle of bodegasones also has another name: “In the tavern.”
Taverns and tavern establishments were divided into different types of trade, which they were allowed to produce: hotels, restaurants, restaurants and cafes-restaurants were the highest category, taverns – the lowest. To institutions of the tavern industry without recoil in the hiring of the chambers are: taverns, restaurants, taverns and dukhans; vegetable and fruit shops and renowned cellars with serving snacks or meals; dining rooms, kitchens, buffets at theaters, steamboats, wharfs, stations of railways, on walks, etc.; beer shops selling hot food; confectionery and pastry with the sale of supplies for consumption on the spot; coffee, food or snack shops.
In the taverns and tavern establishments, station houses and renansovyh cellars all kind of sale of strong drinks, both Russian and foreign, including beer, porter and honey, is allowed; In inns or taverns, temporary exhibitions, wine and bucket shops, sale of the same drinks, but only Russian preparation, is permitted; beer shops can only sell beer, porter and honey, and the cellar for selling Russian grape wines is only wine.