 The cafe, frequented by local high society, was immortalised by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in his "Vilnian Elegies".Although closed down following the Lithuanian takeover of the city, it was soon reopened and housed the "Ksantypa" cabaret run by artists who fled from Nazi-occupied part of Poland, among them Janusz Minkiewicz, Mieczysław Szpakiewicz, Stanisława Perzanowska, Marta Mirska and Światopełk Karpiński.As such it operated until the second Soviet occupation.