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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... miles from Lubeck , we sailed in the Naslednik , steamer , for Petersburg at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon . By nine o'clock on Monday night we were in the Gulf of Finland , the following morning we were off Revel ; B and the ...
... miles from Lubeck , we sailed in the Naslednik , steamer , for Petersburg at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon . By nine o'clock on Monday night we were in the Gulf of Finland , the following morning we were off Revel ; B and the ...
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... miles off , for training and manœuvres : yet even now cocked hats , plumes , and uniforms encounter us at every step . We were at first somewhat surprised in this hot weather , to see the soldiers always buttoned up in their great coats ...
... miles off , for training and manœuvres : yet even now cocked hats , plumes , and uniforms encounter us at every step . We were at first somewhat surprised in this hot weather , to see the soldiers always buttoned up in their great coats ...
Side 22
... miles south of Petersburg . In my last , I told you we were anxious to start on our journey , but that no dili- gence was to be had , and we were detained for two days longer , making frequent but fruitless enquiries at all the offices ...
... miles south of Petersburg . In my last , I told you we were anxious to start on our journey , but that no dili- gence was to be had , and we were detained for two days longer , making frequent but fruitless enquiries at all the offices ...
Side 23
... mile : the rouble , if in coin , is worth about ten pence ; if in paper , about ten pence half - penny as in all payments the former is understood unless the contrary is explicitly stated , the rouble may in general be considered as ...
... mile : the rouble , if in coin , is worth about ten pence ; if in paper , about ten pence half - penny as in all payments the former is understood unless the contrary is explicitly stated , the rouble may in general be considered as ...
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... miles an hour , and reached Torjok on the morning of the 3rd instant , after a journey of forty - nine hours . The post - horses are in general miserable - looking little animals , but they are much better than they appear , and can go ...
... miles an hour , and reached Torjok on the morning of the 3rd instant , after a journey of forty - nine hours . The post - horses are in general miserable - looking little animals , but they are much better than they appear , and can go ...
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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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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