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Title: Petrograd, past and present
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Steveni, W. Barnes
Subjects: Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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large fortune in com-merce. Before reaching Dom Clerk, as it is called,we pass the fa9ade of the English church, surmountedby a carved angel. This church, which belongs to thefamous Russian Company, is outwardly not much toboast of, but the interior, with rich decorations andstained-glass windows, is well worth seeing. Passingthe Koopetchsky Club, the favourite resort of businessmen of various nationalities, and several banks, wearrive at the enormous block occupied by the HolySynod, which forms the Isaac Square, in the centreof which stands the immense cathedral of that name.Fronting the Neva is the splendid equestrian statueof Peter, by Falconet. Farther on are the Admiraltybuildings, where formerly was a yard for the buildingof Peters war galleys, also a wharf with ten slipssurrounded by walls and bastions like a fortress,probably with the object of resisting the attacks of theSwedes, who had then not given up hope of recoveringthe Neva and its outlets into the Baltic. The present
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A TRIP UP THE NEVA 87 towering blocks were erected during the reign ofAlexander I. After the Admiralty, whose gilded spire and classicalfrontage can be seen from most parts of the city, comesthe Panaieff Theatre, built by General Panaieff for hishandsome daughter. Close by is the palace of theGrand Duke Michael the younger (Count Torby), who,rather than abandon the woman he loved (the BaronessTorby), quitted Russia and relinquished his rank, titleand privileges. Opposite the left wing of the Admiralty is the WinterPalace, facing the fortress of Peter and Paul, and nextto this is one end of the Hermitage, separated fromthe main building by a bridge spanning a canal,not unlike the Bridge of Sighs at Venice. Betweenthe Winter Palace and the marble palace, built byCatherine for Orloff, come a number of mansionsoccupied by nobles and ambassadors. This part ofthe quay is called the Dvortzovaja Nabereshnaja,and is perhaps the most expensive quarter of the cityas regards rent. On the left, a

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