Sestroretsk with its Environs  
KurortSestroretsk Seaside Railway Line 
Kurort

The terminal station of the Sestroretsk Seaside Railway is a health resort which offers baths for sea swimming, hydropathic and many more therapeutic establishments. There are splendid gardens, concert and military bands.

F.Raevsky. Petersburg with its Environs. Saint Petersburg, [1902].

Kurort /a health resort/ included a small clinic surrounded by pines, an expensive restaurant and a great concert hall that was a wooden building of interesting design. In summer, the continuously performing symphony orchestra gave regular concerts at this hall. The hall could serve as a ballroom and offered also balls. Opposite the park, there was a long dam with a wharf which was reached by a railway line. The line passed here straight through the beach, between two low fences. A glassed gallery for walking in when it rains, extended along the railway parallel to the coast.

Zasosov D.A., Pyzin V.I.

Saint Petersburg Life of the 1890s-1910s.
Notes of Witnesses. Leningrad, 1991.

 
 
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