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Title: The cruise of the steam yacht North Star; a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Choules, John Overton, 1801-1856
Subjects: Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877
Publisher: Boston, Gould and Lincoln New York, Evans and Dickerson
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the Neva, and on the other a largeopen square, and has a fa<^ade of marble, with ranges of col-ximns a quarter of a mile in length. A beautiful golden spireshoots up from the centre, towering above every other object,and seen from every part of the city glittering in the sun; andthree principal streets, each two miles in length, radiate from thispoint. In front is a range of Boulevards, ornamented with trees,and an open square, at one extremity of which stands the greatchurch of St. Isaac. This square extends to a great distance,and on it are the Winter Palace, Hermitage, and other splendiderections. In walking along this square, the admiralty is off to the left.The Neva runs in front of the grand fa9ade. Here, too, nearby the Isaac church, is the far-famed statue of Peter the Great.This is a glorious creation, and is regarded as the chef-doeuvreof Falconet. The pedestal is a natural block of granite, just as taken fromthe quarry. Peter is seated on horseback; one hand is pointing
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f Al-ti STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT. 129 significantly, the horse paws the air with his fore-legs, whilst thehinder are trampling upon a serpent. The weight of the statueis poised on the tail of the horse, which is fastened on the stone.The inscription on the pedestal is, PETRO PRIMO,CATHERINA SECUNDA. I thought with pride of our own Mills, who has succeeded sonobly in his equestrian statue of Jackson, and in which the horseis self-poised. The great street of the city — the Broadway — is the NeffskyPerspective, named after Alexander Nefisky, the patron saint ofSt. Petersburg. I think this and the other two streets, radi-ating from the adiuiralty, are two hundred feet wide. The chan-nel-gutter is in the middle of the street, and on each side of itare wooden pavements broad enough to allow two carriages orwagons to cross each other. The pavements are wide and wellmade. Many of the shops and stores on this Perspective arofine, and have very much the appearance of similar establish-ment

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