Freken Bock (Cafe)
art-café in Rostov Oblast, Russia

Freken Bock (Russian: Фрекен Бок) is an art-cafe in Taganrog created near the parents' house and the monument of Faina Ranevskaya in 2009.
History of cafe
Cafe "Freken Bock" was created by philologist Olga Evstratyeva. It was opened for visitors in September 2009 in a small mansion of the XIX century at the address: 24, Turgenevsky lane. The interior decisionss of the cafe are permeated with the spirit of well-known books of Astrid Lindgren and decorated with Faina Ranevskaya's photos. The main interior line of the cafe is based on the visual series of the cartoon "Kid and Carlson". The interior and exterior are designed by Olga Grishagina (studio "Baza-design"). Since 2011, the "Freken Bok" cafe is used as one of platforms of the Chekhov Book Festival, where meetings with writers are held.
The cafe hosts poetry evenings, chamber theater performances and small art exhibitions. Nonna Malygina's theater repeatedly presented to public the performances according to Chekhov, Averchenko, Taffy's stories.
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