Memoranda of a Journey to Moscow in the Year 1856Geo. Smith, Watts & Company, 1859 - 354 |
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amongst appearance arrived beautiful bridge bridge of boats building built called canal capital carriage carte de séjour centre CHAP church comfortable considerable Cossacks costume Courland course crossed crowd dark decorated distance dome door dress driving droshky Emperor England English evidently fact feet four gold granite ground Gulf of Finland half horses hundred husband immense interior journey Kazan Kertch Königsberg Kremlin Lapis Lazuli looking luggage magnificent ment miles Miss Benson's morning Moscow Mujiks Neva Nevskoi night obtained occupied padaroshna palace passed passport Petersburg poor portmanteaus post-house quay railway remarkable rendered Riga river road roubles Russian scarcely seat seemed Siberia side square stands station stone streets Strelna sufficient thousand timber tion towers town turned usual vehicle verst walls wheels whilst whole Winter Palace yards
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