Dom Knigi
Art Nouveau landmark crowned by a glowing glass globe tower, now the city's largest bookstore.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dom Knigi on Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg starts with a mob in March 1917, convinced a bronze eagle atop the building's glass tower was a German symbol glaring down on the revolution. It traces how the tower and its glowing globe were built barely a decade earlier for the American Singer Sewing Machine Company, architect Pavel Suzor's workaround for a height limit that barred anything taller than the Winter Palace, and the American consul's reported argument with the crowd in the street. Listen while facing the glass tower and its golden ribbon.
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