Domestic Scenes in Russia: In a Series of Letters Describing a Year's Residence in that Country, Chiefly in the InteriorJ. Murray, 1839 - 348 sider |
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Side 9
... , in a glass cylinder , to protect it from injury . Throughout Petersburg are excellent trottoirs for foot passengers ; but the pavement of the streets in general is disgracefully bad and uneven , the stones which B 5 LETTER II . 9.
... , in a glass cylinder , to protect it from injury . Throughout Petersburg are excellent trottoirs for foot passengers ; but the pavement of the streets in general is disgracefully bad and uneven , the stones which B 5 LETTER II . 9.
Side 11
... excellent library , and I am most happy in this opportunity of ex- pressing my thanks and acknowledgments to the gentlemen to whom it belongs , for the liberal manner in which English visitors at Petersburg are allowed the use of their ...
... excellent library , and I am most happy in this opportunity of ex- pressing my thanks and acknowledgments to the gentlemen to whom it belongs , for the liberal manner in which English visitors at Petersburg are allowed the use of their ...
Side 24
... excellent macadamized road , which is completed all the way to Moscow . The bridges are handsome and solid , being built of granite , with a cast - iron balustrade of an open pattern , exhibiting the Imperial Eagle , with helmets ...
... excellent macadamized road , which is completed all the way to Moscow . The bridges are handsome and solid , being built of granite , with a cast - iron balustrade of an open pattern , exhibiting the Imperial Eagle , with helmets ...
Side 31
... about eight - and - thirty miles from Torjok . We now bade adieu , with regret , to the excellent macadamized chaussée , and enjoyed for the first time the luxury of an old - fashioned Russian road not improved by two LETTER III . 31.
... about eight - and - thirty miles from Torjok . We now bade adieu , with regret , to the excellent macadamized chaussée , and enjoyed for the first time the luxury of an old - fashioned Russian road not improved by two LETTER III . 31.
Side 55
... excellent taste , such taste , indeed , as I have never hitherto seen in Russia . The garden was well laid out , the trees and shrubs judi- * * Or since ; landscape gardening is not greatly in vogue , and little understood in Russia ...
... excellent taste , such taste , indeed , as I have never hitherto seen in Russia . The garden was well laid out , the trees and shrubs judi- * * Or since ; landscape gardening is not greatly in vogue , and little understood in Russia ...
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afterwards aide-de-camp amusement animals appeared arrived caftan called capstans carriage church cold conscripts Cossack course crown crown estates custom dinner door dressed drive Emperor Empress English fast feet fire five four frost Galitzin gallop gentleman ground Gulf of Finland hand handsome head horses Hotel du Nord hundred roubles ispravnik istvostchik journey kibitka kind knout lady land letter looking manner master miles morning Moscow nearly Neva never night nobles o'clock officers palace pass peasants person Petersburg police pounds present priest punishment received river road Russian peasant serfs servants Siberia side sledges snow soldier sometimes steppe sterlet stove streets Tamboff thing thousand roubles tilègas tion told town twelve twenty versts village Volga walk week whole winter Winter Palace wolf wolves wood Yaroslav young