place
Arkadiya
the Arcadia
also: Аркадия
A real, fashionable Petersburg pleasure garden and entertainment venue of the 1870s-80s, popular for its restaurant, music, and spectacle -- burned down here in the story's comic arson subplot.
Reading notes
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §38 the Arcadia
Arkadiya was a real, fashionable Petersburg pleasure garden and entertainment venue of the 1870s-80s, popular for its restaurant, music, and spectacle -- a natural target for the plot's melodramatic arson.