Among the innumerable notable places of interest inPrague there is theexceedingly attractive restaurant U Kalicha (At theChalice) in the Na Bojisti Street, a fewminutes' walk from Wenceslas Squareand a dozen steps or so from the I. P. Pavlovasubway Station. It was here that the Good Soldier Shvejk, traderof dogs by profession,entered the history of World War I. This event andall that followed is nothistorically documented but was recorded by JaroslavHasek in his well knownnovel. On June 29th, 1914, the plainclothespoliceman Brettschneider, memberof the State Police Corps, arrested Josef Shvejk,the modest hero of thethen turbulent times, and the same day in theevening also the pub-ownerPalivec.