What does the word “row” mean in this context?

Question

TheFreedictionary.com says that the word "row" can mean: 3. A line of adjacent seats, as in a theater, auditorium, or classroom. or a. (chiefly Brit) a street, esp a narrow one lined with identical houses

which one is it in this context? (if any)

‘His wife a year he fondly loved
His wife a—a year he—fondly loved.’ 
Or suddenly waking up again:
‘Walking along the crowded row
He met the one he used to know.’

It is a translation of Russian, from Crime and Punishment, chapter 1. The original is "По Подьяческой пошел, // Свою прежнюю нашел."

Answer 1

It’s a very old word for narrow street/road. Some streets in the UK are still called ‘row’ though not many. For most English people it would sound very Dickensian.

Answer 2

It probably means "narrow street".

The original is from Crime and Punishment, and a drunk man is singing drunkenly. "По Подьяческой пошел": literally something like "To Pod'yacheskoy, begone!". "Pod'yacheskoy" is a narrow street in central St Petersburg. Perhaps this is a fragment of a Russian bawdy song.

However the English suggests walking along a narrow but crowded street. A free interpretation in order to find a convenient rhyme.