ISBN: 1235801675

[EAN: 9781235801679], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], HENRY SUTHERLAND EDWARDS,INSTRUCTION, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 74 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This his… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781235801679], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], HENRY SUTHERLAND EDWARDS,INSTRUCTION, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 74 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER VI. KRILOFF AND THE RUSSIAN FABULISTS. There are two monuments in the two capitals of Russia which, at first sight, puzzle and astonish the traveller from the West. I will suppose him to have arrived in Moscow by the Napoleonic route, through Warsaw and Smolensk. His first visit is, of course, to the Kremlin, outside which, in the middle of a large open space, he sees a group of statuary which represents Minin, of Nijni-Novgorod, calling upon Prince Pojarski, the cattle-dealer, to head a band of patriots and lead them against the Poles, at that time (1612) in possession of Moscow. There were no Russian balls given in London in the year 1612 for the benefit of distressed Muscovites; but Russia was then in a very similar position, as regards Poland, to that which Poland has since occupied with respect to Russia. This, in a vast majority of cases, is news to the traveller, who has in all probability been taught to look upon the partition of Poland as quite unjustifiable; whereas, whatever may be said of Austria, and of Prussia the originator of the scheme, it can be urged in defence of Russia that at the first division she simply settled a long-standing account with her ancient enemy. In due time the traveller goes northward to St. Petersburg, where, if he is properly directed, one of his first walks will be along the magnificent quays which imprison the frequently insurgent Neva. Ascending the left bank from St. Isaacs Place, he will pass the cathedral of St. Isaac, the statue of Peter, the Taurida Palace (a present from Catherine to Potemkin), the broad approach to the interminable Nevski Perspective, the wonderful monolith known as the Alexander Column, the Winter Palace, facing which are the Admiralty with its golden spire, and the gloomylooking f. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235801679

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