English: Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in ancient dress of the Tsar and Tsaritsa of the old Muscovite Empire, as worn at an historical costume ball in the palace. Painted by Frédéric de Haenen

Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches)
Title: Russia;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ach street, and these lines are numbered1 to 27. Cutting straight across them at consider-able intervals of distance, and running parallel withthe Quay, are three very long thoroughfares calledthe Big, Middle, and Little Prospects. This wordprospect is applied instead of street or road tomany other main thoroughfares in all parts of thecity, the most important of them all, of course,being the Nevsky Prospect. For the most part,this regularity of construction is disturbed onlywhere rows of houses were made to follow thewindings of natural streams, utilized to form thenetwork of canals, which run through the southernpart of the town. Everything at first seemed to have an airof newness and modernity. The whiteness andlight-coloured tints of the stuccoed fronts ofhouses, which never get black, thanks to thegeneral use of wood fuel instead of coal, helpedto strengthen this impression. There were noremains of antiquity. We should perhaps makean exception in this respect for the two Egyptian
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KMPRROK ANU K.MPRES.s l.\ A.\t U..\ I 1jKI..-» of the Tsar and I>arit>a of thf old Muscovite Kmpire. as worn at an liistoricalcostume ball in the palace FIRST IMPRESSIONS 6 sphinxes, brought from ancient Thebes, and set upon the river quay, opposite the Imperial Academyof Fine Arts. These Egyptian reHcs occupy asimilar position to that of Cleopatras Needle onthe Thames Embankment. Nothing outside ofcollections in museums and palaces dated backfarther than the time of Peter the Great andthe reign of Queen Anne in England. Theauthor in his rambles came upon no eyesores inthe form of congested slums, and there appearedto be no narrow, tortuous lanes and alleys, noobstructive blocks standing in the way of modernrequirements. The city must have been projectedwith large ideas as to the future growth of itsstreet traffic, and although this has greatly increasedduring the writers experience, there is still ampleaccommodation for its further development. Ibelieve there has been only one

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