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 22
... 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 . On the evening of the 30th , how- ever ...
... 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 . On the evening of the 30th , how- ever ...
Side 23
... told would be ready to start , if I chose , in two hours : I , however , preferred setting out in the morning . Though we were only going as far as Torjok , which is five hundred versts , we were obliged to pay for the diligence all the ...
... told would be ready to start , if I chose , in two hours : I , however , preferred setting out in the morning . Though we were only going as far as Torjok , which is five hundred versts , we were obliged to pay for the diligence all the ...
Side 31
... told , tolerably easy . After a breakfast , which was preceded by the re- freshment of a comfortable toilette at the inn where we stopped , we set out to perform the remaining part of our journey to this place , which is fifty versts ...
... told , tolerably easy . After a breakfast , which was preceded by the re- freshment of a comfortable toilette at the inn where we stopped , we set out to perform the remaining part of our journey to this place , which is fifty versts ...
Side 34
... told that the expense of improving them by a mixture of foreign breeds , is very much disproportioned to the profit thereby derived . The animals of every kind are necessarily housed at night , even in summer , on account of the wolves ...
... told that the expense of improving them by a mixture of foreign breeds , is very much disproportioned to the profit thereby derived . The animals of every kind are necessarily housed at night , even in summer , on account of the wolves ...
Side 59
... told also that a traineau with two horses in wax , which we had seen at Petersburg in the Hermi- tage , and the extreme beauty and delicacy of which had excited our admiration , was the work of this lady's mother . On the morning after ...
... told also that a traineau with two horses in wax , which we had seen at Petersburg in the Hermi- tage , and the extreme beauty and delicacy of which had excited our admiration , was the work of this lady's mother . On the morning after ...
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