"Neva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I said, when we came out, 'none of your interference here after this-do you understand?' He laughed: 'And how are you going to settle up with your father?' says he. I thought I might as well jump into the Neva at once without going home first; but it struck me that I wouldn't, after all, and I went home feeling ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... investing them under the guidance of some Jew, till at the end of my career I build a great house in Petersburg and move my publishing offices to it, and let out the upper stories to lodgers. He has even chosen the place for it, near the new stone bridge across the Neva, which they say is to be built ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... I been born in Petersburg and constantly lived there, I should always dream of the banks of the Neva, the Senate Square, ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... Prospect, a street which runs from the Admiralty to the Monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky, is nearly three miles in length and for the greatest part of the way floored with small blocks of wood shaped octagonally. The broad and rapid Neva runs through the centre of this Queen of cities, and on either side is a noble quay, from which you have a full view of the river and of what is passing on its bosom. But I will not be diffuse in the description of objects which have been so often ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow |
