A 19th-century drawing of a man being importuned by traders in the Great Gostiny Dvor, a large department store in Saint Petersburg, Russia.1
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Footnotes
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From Thomas W[allace] Knox (1887), chapter VI, in The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 113. The caption of the illustration reads “Importuning a visitor.” ↩