Smart Shopping in St. Petersburg – Cosmos Tour
By sandra. Filed in Cosmos Jewels of the Baltic Tour, Europe, Russia, Shopping |
In the 1760’s Catherine the Great opened the first and largest department store, Gostinyi Dvor, in St.Petersburg (A lady after my own heart). Nowadays the words Gostinyi Dvor are considered the historic Russian term for an indoor market or shopping center.
The block long store is on top of Gostiny Dvor (Saint Petersburg Metro), a station on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line (which went right to the Cosmos Tour hotel).
When Catherine the Great died, there were 15,000 dresses in her chambers. Do you think she bought them there?
