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The execution is tolerable , and they are said to be in general good likenesses :
Dawes received a thousand roubles , about forty pounds , for each . In another
room are the portraits of Field - Marshals only — a rank of which the Emperor is ...
The execution is tolerable , and they are said to be in general good likenesses :
Dawes received a thousand roubles , about forty pounds , for each . In another
room are the portraits of Field - Marshals only — a rank of which the Emperor is ...
Side 13
The usual force quartered in and about the city amounts , I believe , to sixty
thousand men ; but at this time the greater part of them are absent , being
encamped twenty or thirty miles off for training and manoeuvres ; yet even now
cocked hats ...
The usual force quartered in and about the city amounts , I believe , to sixty
thousand men ; but at this time the greater part of them are absent , being
encamped twenty or thirty miles off for training and manoeuvres ; yet even now
cocked hats ...
Side 41
My informant calculates that this gentleman has got thrown into heaps the
skeletons of about eighteen thousand horses . What a treasure these bones
would be to an English farmer ! There are two kinds of hares in Russia , one of
which lives ...
My informant calculates that this gentleman has got thrown into heaps the
skeletons of about eighteen thousand horses . What a treasure these bones
would be to an English farmer ! There are two kinds of hares in Russia , one of
which lives ...
Side 50
Ouglitch , like Kashine , is a very old town ; it contains about four thousand
inhabitants , and there are no less than twenty - four churches , besides two
convents . None of the churches , however , appeared to be as handsome as
some of those ...
Ouglitch , like Kashine , is a very old town ; it contains about four thousand
inhabitants , and there are no less than twenty - four churches , besides two
convents . None of the churches , however , appeared to be as handsome as
some of those ...
Side 53
Yaroslav contains twenty - eight thousand inhabitants , and forty - three or
fortyfour churches . Besides the terrace above the Volga , there is a handsome
boulevard , and also a public garden . There are a number of large houses in the
town ...
Yaroslav contains twenty - eight thousand inhabitants , and forty - three or
fortyfour churches . Besides the terrace above the Volga , there is a handsome
boulevard , and also a public garden . There are a number of large houses in the
town ...
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Domestic Scenes in Russia: In a Series of Letters Describing a Year's ... Richard Lister Venables Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1856 |
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