House of Books, St Petersburg
Posted in Baltic Cruise, Science Fiction, Trips at 12:00 on 3 May 2020
Or the Singer Building. It’s the corner building with the cupola and sphere. Also known as Dom Knigi. Note Victory Day banners.
The bookshop lies just by the Griboyedov Canal on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and the Griboyedov Channel Embankment road.
We went in. It has loads of lovely books. The good lady was most taken by the illustrated children’s ones. She bought a copy of Гуси лебеди (Gusi-lebedi or Geese-swans) and (in English) Pushkin’s Fairy Tales and also The Monarchs of Russia. The shop had a large stock of SF. Unfortunately it was all in Russian!
The light fittings on the Griboyedov Channel Embankment road are something else:-
Tags: Dom Knigi, House of Books, Pushkin's Fairy Tales, Science Fiction, SF, Singer Building, St Petersburg, The Monarchs of Russia, Гуси лебеди
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