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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... thousand years ago . The boatmen are fine - looking men , of the real and pure Russian race , uncontaminated by a mixture with the Tartar blood , of which there are so many traces in the middle provinces . Their dress is picturesque ...
... thousand years ago . The boatmen are fine - looking men , of the real and pure Russian race , uncontaminated by a mixture with the Tartar blood , of which there are so many traces in the middle provinces . Their dress is picturesque ...
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... thousand inhabitants , including the foreigners ( mostly Germans ) and the government authorities , but it was a miserably dull place . In the winter , which lasts about eight months of the year , we lived almost entirely by candle ...
... thousand inhabitants , including the foreigners ( mostly Germans ) and the government authorities , but it was a miserably dull place . In the winter , which lasts about eight months of the year , we lived almost entirely by candle ...
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... as the most part of the English do , in little colonies by them- selves , but mixing with the people , and had they travelled a few thousand miles over the cross - country roads CHAP . III . 19 TRAVELLERS IN RUSSIA .
... as the most part of the English do , in little colonies by them- selves , but mixing with the people , and had they travelled a few thousand miles over the cross - country roads CHAP . III . 19 TRAVELLERS IN RUSSIA .
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Mrs. Andrew Neilson. a few thousand miles over the cross - country roads , they would soon have had " the gilding taken off the ginger- bread " of Muscovite civilization . In fact , the excessive exterior polish always reminded me of a ...
Mrs. Andrew Neilson. a few thousand miles over the cross - country roads , they would soon have had " the gilding taken off the ginger- bread " of Muscovite civilization . In fact , the excessive exterior polish always reminded me of a ...
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... thousand instances I have remarked acts of benevolence and charity that would do honour to the name of Russian , and serve to counterbalance grave faults and errors with which unfortunately they are mingled . Such must be expected in a ...
... thousand instances I have remarked acts of benevolence and charity that would do honour to the name of Russian , and serve to counterbalance grave faults and errors with which unfortunately they are mingled . Such must be expected in a ...
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