PS: Google-image recovered for me a drawing that (as I surmise) represents the scene VN is discussing in connection to the “ top hat like Bolivar’s” 
It’s quite unlike the one I’m used to seeing in the pictures with Bolivian women.

I wonder about its story!

 

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Evgeny stood, with soul regretful, and leant upon the granite shelf; [the parapet of Neva river] he stood there, pensive and forgetful,

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