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Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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IN THE GREAT MORSKAYA ST. PETERSBURG 57 folk — mujiks — and all persons carrying bulky bundles areruled off the sidewalks and compelled to walk in the middle ofthe street. One of the most conspicuous buildings is the Gos-tiny Dvor, a low, white structure, its lateral walls stretchingaway from the Nevsky, being twice as long as the facade onwhich we look. Two hundred separate shops are housed,besides innumerable stalls, under the endless arcades round
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THE NEVSKY PROSPECT about the busy Bazar. The people seen in carriages or onthe sidewalks are not, at first glance, particularly unlike thecitizens of any other European capital. Were it not for thefat coachmen, the militar)^ caps and insistent Russian signs,we might be at a loss to tell our whereabouts. But the Rus-sian alphabet, like the Russian policeman, is everywhere inevidence, telling you in words you cannot understand that you 58 ST. PETERSBURG are a stranger in the land. Some one whose eyes and mindhad been thrown out of focus by these exasperating Slaviccharacters, dubbed the Russian alphabet an A B C inspasms. No wonder that shopkeepers feel compelled toput out signs in picture-language, that may be understoodby the people not fully initiated mto alphabetic mysteries.At every step the observant traveler notes a curious illus-tration of the Russian way of doing things. For example,

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  • bookid:travelogues08holmuoft
  • bookyear:1917
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Holmes__Burton__b__1870
  • booksubject:Argentina____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Chile____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Brazil____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:South_America____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Iguassu_Falls
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Travelogue_Bureau
  • bookcontributor:Robarts___University_of_Toronto
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:65
  • bookcollection:robarts
  • bookcollection:toronto
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