The Englishwoman in Russia; impressions of the society and manners of the Russians at home, by a lady two years resident in that country |
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... head - dress of gold , and was told that they were staying at the winter - palace , but for what purpose I could not learn ; perhaps the government means to make use of them in the present war ; if so , it can only be in 12 CHAP . I ...
... head - dress of gold , and was told that they were staying at the winter - palace , but for what purpose I could not learn ; perhaps the government means to make use of them in the present war ; if so , it can only be in 12 CHAP . I ...
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... head man of a neighbouring village came to beg the honour of our company at a festival which he proposed giving the next day to cele- brate his daughter's marriage . We accepted the invita- tion , and the following morning hired a boat ...
... head man of a neighbouring village came to beg the honour of our company at a festival which he proposed giving the next day to cele- brate his daughter's marriage . We accepted the invita- tion , and the following morning hired a boat ...
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... head - dresses had a very striking effect . The bride herself , a pretty - looking girl of about seventeen , was seated at the upper end of the room with the bridegroom at her right hand . A table , covered with a white cloth and ...
... head - dresses had a very striking effect . The bride herself , a pretty - looking girl of about seventeen , was seated at the upper end of the room with the bridegroom at her right hand . A table , covered with a white cloth and ...
Page 16
... head man of the village , but he had shops of his own in Moscow and in St. Petersburg . I noticed that the bride's fingers were loaded with rings ; indeed she seemed to have on all the finery the whole family could muster . As for the ...
... head man of the village , but he had shops of his own in Moscow and in St. Petersburg . I noticed that the bride's fingers were loaded with rings ; indeed she seemed to have on all the finery the whole family could muster . As for the ...
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... head that it effectually dis- pels all visions and fantasies . I look out and find we are splashing gaily through a morass which hides in its bosom sly stones and stocks , and which seems as inter- minable as the sandy plains from which ...
... head that it effectually dis- pels all visions and fantasies . I look out and find we are splashing gaily through a morass which hides in its bosom sly stones and stocks , and which seems as inter- minable as the sandy plains from which ...
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