venice, london, berlin, rome, and even with the granddaughter of catherine ii, catherine pavlovna. which ii will be called the small courtyard. it is then that tver will begin to adopt the customs and attributes of metropolitan life. tver is a small town in st. petersburg, as there was a saying. yes indeed, residents of tveret, and especially the residents of veretyanka tried not to lag behind the capital in any way. for example, tver socialites loved card playing salons. it happened that we lost fabulous sums. that is why the fabulist, and also the then vice-governor of tver, alexander efimovich izmailov, ridiculed the morals of the tver ladies in his fable, calling them playgirls. the ladies in tver are not nice to me, they trump them all day, damn them. so what do you think, these tigresses took revenge on the impudent scribe, filed a complaint against him, and the vice-governor was demoted went to serve in some wilderness. in general, as the unforgettable general said from the peculiarities of the national hunt and so on, all the evil comes from the women, well, i don’t know. in fair