🏛 Passage

Невский пр., 48

A 19th-century department store with a glass roof over a long arcade of shops from Nevsky Prospekt to Italyanskaya Street.

Passage opened on 9 May 1848; it was built by architect Rudolf Zhelyazevich for Count Essen-Stenbock-Fermor.
From the 1860s Turgenev, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky performed in Passage's concert hall.
In 1879 Crédit Lyonnais set up here — the only foreign bank then allowed to operate in Russia.
In 1904–1906 Vera Komissarzhevskaya's theatre worked in Passage's hall.
In 1961 the first department store for women in the USSR opened in Passage.
Passage is mentioned in the title of Dostoevsky's story “The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Event, or the Passage in the Passage”.

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