Nevsky Prospekt

Reading notes

• The Duel §23 Nevsky

  Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's grand central avenue, the fashionable promenade Laevsky recalls with longing.

• Two Newspapermen §10 set fire to Nevsky Prospekt from both ends

  Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's central thoroughfare; invoked here as a hyperbolic image of a catastrophe so enormous it would still bore a jaded crime reporter.

• The Crafty One §1 the Nevsky

  Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue, the customary stage for fashionable strolling and chance encounters in Russian fiction of the period.

• Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §9 the Nevsky

  Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue, the customary stage for fashionable strolling in Russian fiction of the period.

• On the Nail §1 the Nevsky

  Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's grand central avenue, here reduced to the drab commute route of low-ranking clerks.

• On Official Business §16 the Nevsky

  Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue, invoked here as shorthand for the cultured city life the two officials feel exiled from.

• Patronage §1 the Nevsky

  Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue, the customary stage for fashionable strolling and, in this sketch, for a small, anxious errand of patronage.

• The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §33 the Nevsky

  Nevsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue and the customary stage for fashionable strolling and chance encounters in Russian fiction of the period.

• In the Landau §1 the Nevsky

  Saint Petersburg's grand central avenue, the customary stage for fashionable strolling and riding in Russian fiction of the period.

• Verochka §45 the Nevsky

  Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's grand central avenue, stands here by metonymy for the whole of fashionable, crowded capital life -- the "great damp houses" of educated society that Ognev, mid-monologue, contrasts unfavorably with the space and unpretentious truth he has found in the provinces.