The Overcoat Lesson Plan

What does Nevsky Avenue look like at different times of the day?

In the early morning, everyone is still asleep and the avenue is deserted. At twelve o’clock, Nevsky Avenue awakens. People come out from various professions. This is when governesses and tutors bring the children in their care to the avenue for learning. They leave by two o’clock. At three o’clock, the avenue is filled with Civil Servants. And from four o’clock on, “Nevsky Avenue is empty and you will scarcely meet a single Civil Servant there” (167). When night falls, the avenue comes to life again. “There is a certain purposefulness or something that resembles some purpose in the air at this time” (167)....