"yellow house" in Russian

[Alina Israeli]

A simple search produced this article:

http://www.piter.nev.ru/cgi-bin/gb/showbook.cgi?act=show&page=86&id=baika&next=1
&arn=2

It says that the first psychiatric hospital in St. Petersbrug on
Obuxovskaja oborona (which housed Hermann of the "trojka, semerka, tuz"
fame) predictably was painted yellow.

Yellow, might I add, was one of the popular colors of the Russian
classicism (Rossi, for ex), so I would say that one should not necessarily
look for deep symbolism.

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

phone:  (202) 885-2387
fax:    (202) 885-1076

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