Toria Garden

Tauris Gardens is named as a rumored destination of Major Kovaloff’s independently roaming nose. No verified encounter occurs there in the account: the gardens matter as one point in a shifting urban rumor that turns a private bodily loss into a spectacle sought by curious visitors.

The Gardens in the City’s Rumors

After the nose’s disappearance becomes a public story, reports multiply and change. One version claims that it walks every day at three o’clock along Nevsky Avenue; another places it not on the avenue but in Tauris Gardens. The narrative presents the gardens as a destination supplied by hearsay, rather than as the setting for an established appearance.

Visitors and Spectators

The rumor is sufficient to send students from the Academy of Surgery to the gardens in hopes of seeing the nose. A high-born lady also writes to the garden keeper, asking him to show the rare phenomenon to her children and provide them with suitable instruction. These prospective viewers approach the alleged sighting differently, but both accounts make the gardens a place where curiosity about the nose is organized into a visit.

Narrative Significance

Tauris Gardens belongs to the story’s wider map of public attention, alongside streets and commercial locations where reports attract crowds or prompt police intervention. Here, however, the evidence consists of a rumor and intended visits, not a confirmed appearance. The distinction underscores how the nose’s supposed movements spread through the city in competing versions: the public spectacle grows even when its reported location cannot be established.