A PASSAGE TO NOWHERE AT THE WHIRLYIGIG DZYGA
Dzyga means whirligig, as in a spinning top. It’s a stone building that now serves as an art gallery and cultural center with a café and art store inside. The building becomes a passage to nowhere at the end of Virmenska vulytsia (Armenian Street). It operated once as a stable – Nicholas recalled someone mentioning that to him. It had been covered over a hundred years ago – no one quite remembered when, to form a tunnel with two or three long steps. The stone arch of the tunnel passage opens up at the back end to a six or seven meter high rectangular room. Large blocks of what looked like sandstone rose up on the sides and ceiling. It was a building built around a tunnel, or a tunnel built into a building that covered over the street that now w
