CONTEXT IMAGES: Scenes

1. EXTERIORS:
   1. Book Kiosk with Lubki
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   2. Bookstore (Slenin)
      
      
   3. Bookstore (Smirdin)
      Depicts exterior of Smirdin's bookstore on Nevskii Prospekt.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   4. Gentry Bookbuyers (Smirdin's Store)
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   5. Lower-class Reading Group on Street
      
      
   6. Public Library (Imperial)
      
      
   7. Theater (Imperial)
      
      
   
   
2. INTERIORS:
   1. Bookstore
      Depicts interior of Smirdin's bookstore on Nevskii Prospekt. On the far right: the poet Alexander Pushkin, conversing with Prince Viazemskii.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   2. Gentry Apartment (Tolstoi family) (1830)
      
      
   3. Reading Library
      Depicts a housewarming party held in Feb. 1832 in the reading library of the publisher A. F. Smirdin on Nevskii Prospekt in St. Petersburg. From left to right: F. V. Bulgarin, A. Shakhovskoi, P. A. Viazemskii, N. I. Grech (arm raised), A. S. Pushkin, A. Khvostov, I. Krylov, A. F. Smirdin.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   4. Salon (Elagina)
      Elagina's salon in Moscow, 1830s-1840s.
      
      
   5. Salon (Krylov)
      
      
   6. Woman Reading (Country House)
      Source: Nashi, spisannye s natury russkimi, vyp. 5 "Baryshnia" (St. Petersburg, 1841).