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Salamander (fire insurance company)
Salamander
also: Саламандра, "Salamander" fire insurance company
A real St. Petersburg-based joint-stock fire insurance company operating in Imperial Russia; one of the pompous list of society-memberships and agencies with which the comic card-holder Pishchik-Zabludovsky pads his title.
Reading notes
- Visiting Cards §5 Саламандра
Salamander, a real St. Petersburg fire-insurance joint-stock company; its name (the mythical creature said to live in fire) made it a natural brand for a fire insurer.