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  • I bought the fabric at Gostinyi Dvor on Nevsky, and Marina stitched it into something she saw in a coverless fashion magazine left lying around her theater.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • I bought the fabric at Gostinyi Dvor on Nevsky, and Marina stitched it into something she saw in a coverless fashion magazine left lying around her theater.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra: All but three of the stops on this whirlwind trip — the cities listed cover less than half of it; see the website below for the rest — are with the great Riga-born cellist Mischa Maisky, playing the Dvor á k concerto.

    Time Off: Events in Asia 2010

  • It was not only the flames themselves, but their symbolic import that made the fire in the Apraxin Dvor so terrible an eventin the psychology of Russia.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Prince went out to the narrow lane that bounded the Dvor.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • It was not only the flames themselves, but their symbolic import that made the fire in the Apraxin Dvor so terrible an eventin the psychology of Russia.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The cause of the fire in the Apraxin Dvor was never discovered.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The cause of the fire in the Apraxin Dvor was never discovered.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Many of those who beheld the plumes of smoke rising from Apraxin Dvor wondered what cataclysm they foretold.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The novelist Turgenev, who chanced to return to Saint Petersburg on the day of the fire in the Apraxin Dvor, was startledto discover that the word “nihilist” had been caught up by thousands of people.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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