gostinnui

Updated: June 3, 2025

The long saloon was filled with the most motley throng of visitors, collected like birds of prey swooping down upon an unburied corpse. There was a whole squadron of Russian shop-keepers from the Gostinnui Dvor, and from the old-clothes mart, in blue coats of foreign make.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Taras Bulba and Other Tales