Russia and the Russians, in 1842, Том 1H. Colburn, 1842 |
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Admiralty adorned Alexander arms Baron Schilling beautiful bridges building burg capital carriages Catherine Caucasus Chinese church Claude Lorrain cold collection colours decorated dress droschka edifice elegant emperor empire English extraordinary extremely eyes feet Fontanka foreign Foundling Hospital French frequently Garden German gold Gostinnoi Dwor granite ground hand handsome Hermitage horses hospitals houses hundred imperial inhabitants institution interesting iron Iswoschtschik kaftans kind ladies living look magnificent marble mass million Mongol monuments Moscow nations Newa Newsky painted peasants pedestrians Persian persons Perspective Peter Petersburg pillars pood present prince prodigious Quay republic of Novgorod Riga river roof rubles Russian scarcely seated seen shops sian Siberia side silver sledges snow sorts spirit stands stone stove streets of Petersburg Summer Garden Tatars thick thing thou thousand tion ukases Wassili Ostrow whole Winter Palace wood
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Сторінка 357 - ... iron steps, are gigantic vases that are filled with combustibles on all occasions of public illumination. The erection of the whole, including the quays, occupied nearly twelve years, from 1804 to 1816, a most unheard-of period in St. Petersburg, where a copy of St. Peter's at Rome •was " got up in two years,'' and a new imperial palace rose from its ashes in eleven months.
Сторінка 19 - If you ask a butschnik (a policeman stationed in the street) at one end, about an address, he assures you that his knowledge extends no further than the corner of the house next to him, and that he knows nothing whatever of the other side. In these buildings there are dwellings so remote, that all who live under one roof are not disposed to acknowledge one another as neighbours ; so that there is not much exaggeration in the statement of a traveller who asserts that every house in Petersburg is a...
Сторінка 362 - ... life — a catastrophe but too frequent in other countries. This phenomenon, apparently in contradiction with the preceding observations, may be attributed chiefly to the levity of the Russian temperament, and partly to this, that the Russian merchant, in losing his money, does not consider his honor as a trader and his credit as a man at all affected, because for him nothing of the sort exists. "Bog S'nim," (God with them !) he says of his lost moneys, and begins " S'bogom," (with God) his card-house...
Сторінка 364 - Petersburgh is certainly the largest company of respectable and polished men that is to be seen in Russia, without order or cross of any kind. Besides those silver marks worn by the brokers in their business, as a sign that they have been duly appointed and sworn, and medals of a pound weight hanging about the necks of a few of the Russian merchants, you perceive no distinctions of this sort — nothing but black frocks and simple green surtouts.
Сторінка 360 - ... as they are called, who, in time of peace, enjoy the advantages of denizenship, without its burdens. The English mercantile body call themselves the Petersburg factory. They have their own chapel, and, despising all other nations, but most especially their protectors, the Russians, they live shut up by themselves, drive English horses and carriages, go bear-hunting on the Newa as they do tiger-hunting on the Ganges, disdain to lift the hat to the emperor himself, and, proud of their indispensableness...
Сторінка 360 - ... live shut up by themselves, drive English horses and carriages, go bear-hunting on the Newa, as they do tiger-hunting on the Ganges, disdain to lift the hat to the emperor himself, and, proud of their indispensableness and the invincibility of their fleets, defy everybody, find fault with everything they see, but are highly thought of by the government and by all. because they think highly of themselves, and reside chiefly in the magnificent quay named after them, where, however, many wealthy...