place
Okhotny Ryad
also: Охотный ряд, Hunters' Row
A historic market street in central Moscow, near the Kremlin, lined with food shops, butchers, and provision stalls.
Reading notes
- My Witticisms and Sayings §7 Okhotny Ryad
A historic market street in central Moscow near the Kremlin, lined with butcher stalls and provision shops; its name became shorthand for the city's meat trade and, by extension, its coarse tradesman class.
- Before the Eclipse §20 the young bucks of Okhotny Ryad
Okhotny Ryad ("Hunters' Row"), a market street just north of the Kremlin, was Moscow's principal food market, associated in period writing with its butchers' and grocers' apprentices -- boisterous young shopmen stereotyped as a rowdy, unsophisticated set, here imagined heading to market at dawn just as the Sun prepares to rise.
- To A. S. Lazarev, 27–28 June 1887. Babkino. §6 Okhotny Ryad
"Hunters' Row," Moscow's historic produce and game market street, a natural place to find live-fish vendors selling fish-traps.
- Trichinae Without Sausages §1 Okhotny Ryad
Moscow's historic 'Hunters' Row,' a market street near the Kremlin lined with food shops and provision stalls -- the natural address for a butcher's or grocer's advertisement.