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Modny Svet
Fashionable World
also: Модный свет
A St. Petersburg fashion and society magazine of the 1870s-80s aimed at women readers; used here as shorthand for its sentimental, romantically minded readership.
Reading notes
- A Short Anatomy of Man §14 Fashionable World
"Модный свет" (Modny Svet), a St. Petersburg fashion and society magazine of the 1870s-80s aimed at women readers -- shorthand here for a certain romantically minded lady reader.