From the lobby a fairly steep staircase led up to the second storey consisting of eight or nine rooms, where the boarding-school master lived on one side and there were classrooms The entrance porch was wooden and faced the street. The building which you will not find today was a two-storeyed Some other time and on some other occasion I may perhaps speak in more detail about the changes that have taken place in St Petersburg during my lifetime, but now I shall turn once again to the boarding school which, some forty years ago, stood in the First Line on Vassilievsky Towns have the advantage over people that they occasionally grow more beautiful with the years. In short, St Petersburg was not what it is today. St Isaac’s Bridge was narrow and crooked, and presented a very different appearance from now. In place of today’s fine pavements there were wooden planks, often
No delightful shady avenues on the prospects of Vassilievsky Island. At that time St Petersburg was famed throughout Europe for its beauty, although it was nothing like what it is now. Some forty years ago in St Petersburg, in the First Line on Vassilievsky Island lived the master of a boarding school for boys which many will probably remember well to this day, although the building which the school occupied has long since made way for another bearing no resemblance to the earliest one. Antoni Pogorelsky The Little Black Hen, or The Underground People
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