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Updated: April 30, 2025
As we entered the courtyard, the captain begged to know by what possibility I understood in his own language what he could not. I explained that while the woman spoke so glibly I caught the words "doma, kamen, na leva, gastinni dvor." I understood only the essential part of her instruction, and was not confused by the rest.
A Russian said to me: "If half the houses in Moscow were stripped of furniture, ornaments, and all things save the walls and roofs; if their inhabitants were plundered of all clothing and personal goods except their bank accounts, the gastinni dvor could supply every deficiency within two hours.
Her reply was so voluminous, and so rapidly given that my friend was utterly bewildered, and comprehended nothing. To his astonishment I told him that I understood the direction. "C'est impossible," he declared. "By no means," I replied. "The madame lives in a stone house to the left of the gastinni dvor. The washerwoman said so." Following my advice we found the house.
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