clothes-mart

Updated: July 11, 2025

There are old women who get drunk, who make a living by incomprehensible means, like ants, dragging old clothes and rags from the Kalinkin Bridge to the old clothes-mart, in order to sell them for fifteen kopeks in short, the very dregs of mankind, whose conditions no beneficent, political economist has devised any means of ameliorating.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales