Kokushkin Bridge

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In Mikhail Lermontov's unfinished novel "Shtoss", the main character, the artist Lugin, looks for "Shtoss House" near Kokushkin Bridge. [cite journal |author=John Mersereau, Jr. |title=Lermontov's Shtoss: Hoax or Literary Credo? |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/3000633 |accessdate=2008-08-25 |journal=Slavic Review |publisher=The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies |volume=21 |date=June 1962] It is conceivable that Lermontov took the actual "Zverkov House" as the prototype of Shtoss House. Zverkov House was a famous apartment house near Kokushkin Bridge.

In 1829, the then young and unknown Nikolai Gogol rented a room in that house, where he wrote "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", as commemorated by a plaque on the house. Gogol liked to place the characters in his writings in real locations that he had visited. In "Diary of a Madman", Gogol sends Poprishchin over the Kokushkin Bridge to the Zverkov House.

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place = Griboedov Canal
bridge = Kokushkin Bridge
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upstream = Hay Bridge
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downstream = Voznesensky Bridge
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