GOSTINOI DVOR 



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The fancy market to which foreigners in St. Petersburg 

 usually goT is the Gostinoi Dvor, the front face of which is in 

 the Nevsky (Fig. 48). It resembles what a cross between 

 Burlington Arcade and Petticoat Lane might be. This 

 illustration gives a good ^idea of the great width of the 



Photo by\ [Jf. //. //. 



FIG. 48. View of the Nevsky, with the Admiralty in the distance and the 



Gostinoi Dvor on the left. 



Nevsky, down the middle of which the line of electric lamps 

 runs. 



The long drives by the side of the Neva to and from 

 the Officers' School were far from agreeable ; for the wind 

 as a rule was bitterly cold, and a drojky offers no protection 

 against it. Fig. 49 is the reproduction of a snap-shot which 

 my wife took of me while my friend of Fig. 22 was driving 

 me back from the school one day. The gloomy Fortress, 

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