Not that it is distinguished by splendid buildings or their own Semiramis’s hanging gardens, and shan’t you find even a single three-storey house in a long row of streets, all unpaved, but there is something peaceful, patriarchal in all its physiognomy
Spasskaya Street, looking east
Postcard photograph, 1910s
The main street of the provincial capital.

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The whole town, from the river
Photograph, c. 1900s
The landing stage and the centre.

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Its administration sits in a Dom Sovetov.