Khosrow Mirza's mission to St Petersburg in 1829 1

Next, word had it that the nose was walking, not on the Nevski Prospekt, but in the Taurida Park, ² and, in fact, had been in the habit of doing so for a long while past, so that even in the days when Khozrev Mirza had lived near there he had been greatly astonished at the freak of nature.