19th century The first hotel on the site was established by Napoleon Bokin in 1840, a three-story structure known as '''Napoleon's
. From 1845–1846, the structure was expanded by architect Adrian Ruben with the addition of a fourth floor and converted to S. Poggenpol's''' apartment house. In 1876 it was again rebuilt and converted back to a hotel, named the
Hotel Schmidt-Angleterre, with the former for its proprietor, Teresa Schmidt and the latter meaning 'England' in French.
Leo Tolstoy was a frequent guest.
20th century The hotel was again reconstructed from 1911–1912, at which point it became the '''Hotel d'Angleterre'''. At this point, the hotel had 75 rooms and numerous shops on the ground floor. The neighboring
Hotel Astoria, which opened in 1912, soon proved such a success that the Angleterre was set for demolition for a huge expansion of the Astoria designed by architect
Fyodor Lidval, mirroring the existing Astoria building. However the outbreak of
World War I prevented this. at the beginning of the
Siege of Leningrad. The hospital closed in the summer of 1942 and the building remained vacant until the end of the war. Remodeling began in 1945 and the hotel reopened on December 30, 1948 as the
Hotel Leningradskaya. In 1975, the hotel ceased to operate independently and was merged with the adjacent Hotel Astoria as "Block B" of the hotel. In 1985 the Angleterre hotel structure was closed, The current hotel, designed by A.I. Pribulsky, opened in 1991 as a wing of the adjacent
Hotel Astoria.
Rocco Forte Hotels took over the Astoria in 1997, and re-established the Angleterre as a separate hotel in 1999. The Angleterre is marketed as the business-class wing of its more luxurious sister. The upper guest room floors of the two hotels are connected.
21st century A cinema opened in the hotel in 2013, but closed in 2025. ==Gallery==