Travel
Choice of a Conveyance.--Hiring a Servant.--Another American.--Beginning of Troubles.--A Bivouac.--Russian Jews.--The Steppes of Russia.--A _Traveller's_ Story.--Approach to Chioff.--How to get rid of a Servant.--History of Chioff. 7
The Soldier's Reward.--Review of the Russian Army.--American Cannibals.--Palace of Potemkin.--Palace of the Grand-duke Michael.--Equipments for Travelling.--Rough Riding.--Polan...
28. CHAPTER XIV.Cracow.--Casimir the Great.--Kosciusko.--Tombs of the Polish Kings.--A Polish Heroine.--Last Words of a King.--A Hero in Decay.--The Salt-mines of Cracow.--The Descent.--The Min...
17. CHAPTER III.Moscow.--A severe Operation.--An Exile by Accident.--Meeting with an Emigré.--A civil Stranger.--A Spy.--The Kremlin.--Sepulchres of the Czars.--The great Bell.--The great Gun.-...
15. CHAPTER I.Choice of a Conveyance.--Hiring a Servant.--Another American.--Beginning of Troubles.--A Bivouac.--Russian Jews.--The Steppes of Russia.--A _Traveller's_ Story.--Approach to Chi...
20. CHAPTER VI.Police Requisites.--The Russian Capital.--Equestrian Statue of Peter the Great.--The Alexandrine Column.--Architectural Wonders.--The Summer Islands.--A perilous Achievement.--O...
21. CHAPTER VII.A New Friend.--The Winter Palace.--Importance of a Hat.--An artificial Mine.--Remains of a huge Monster.--Peter the Great's Workshop.--The Greek Religion.--Tomb of a Hero.--A Sa...
26. CHAPTER XII.Religion of Poland.--Sunday in Warsaw.--Baptized Jews.--Palaces of the Polish Kings.--Sobieski.--Field of Vola.--Wreck of a Warrior.--The Poles in America.--A Polish Lady.--Trou...
27. CHAPTER XIII.Friendly Solicitude.--Raddom.--Symptoms of a Difficulty.--A Court of Inquisition.--Showing a proper Spirit.--Troubles thickening.--Approaching the Climax.--Woman's Influence.--T...
24. CHAPTER X.Travel by Night.--A Rencounter.--A Traveller's Message.--Lithuania.--Poverty of the Country.--Agricultural Implements.--Minsk.--Polish Jews.--A Coin of Freedom.--Riding in a Bas...
18. CHAPTER IV.EARLY the next morning I mounted a drosky and rode to a celebrated garden or springs, furnished with every description of mineral water. I have several times spoken of the drosk...
16. CHAPTER II.A lucky Encounter.--Church of the Catacombs.--A Visit to the Saints.--A tender Parting.--Pilgrims.--Rough Treatment.--A Scene of Starvation.--Russian Serfs.--Devotion of the Ser...
25. CHAPTER XI.A LETTER dated at Warsaw to my friends at home begins thus: "I have reached this place to be put on my back by a Polish doctor. How long he will keep me here I do not know. He p...
22. CHAPTER VIII.THE next day was that appointed for the great fête at Peterhoff. In spite of the confining nature of his two suits, my Pole had determined to accompany me thither, being prompte...
19. CHAPTER V.UNABLE to remain longer in Moscow, I prepared for my journey for St. Petersburgh. Several diligences run regularly between these two great cities; one of which, the Velocifère,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Cracow.--Casimir the Great.--Kosciusko.--Tombs of the Polish Kings.--A Polish Heroine.--Last Words of a King.--A Hero in Decay.--The Salt-mines of Cracow.--The Descent.--The Min...
7. CHAPTER VII.A Carroty Pole.--The Winter Palace.--Importance of a Hat.--An artificial Mine.--Remains of a huge Monster.--Peter the Great's Workshop.--The Greek Religion.--Tomb of a Hero.--A...
12. CHAPTER XII.Religion of Poland.--Sunday in Warsaw.--Baptized Jews.--Palaces of the Polish Kings.--Sobieski.--Field of Vola.--Wreck of a Warrior.--The Poles in America.--A Polish Lady.--Trou...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Friendly Solicitude.--Raddom.--Symptoms of a Difficulty.--A Court of Inquisition.--Showing a proper Spirit.--Troubles thickening.--Approaching the Climax.--Woman's Influence.--T...
1. CHAPTER I. PageChoice of a Conveyance.--Hiring a Servant.--Another American.--Beginning of Troubles.--A Bivouac.--Russian Jews.--The Steppes of Russia.--A _Traveller's_ Story.--Approach to Chi...
6. CHAPTER VI.Police Requisites.--The Russian Capital.--Equestrian Statue of Peter the Great.--The Alexandrian Column.--Architectural Wonders.--The Summer Islands.--A perilous Achievement.--O...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Soldier's Reward.--Review of the Russian Army.--American Cannibals.--Palace of Potemkin.--Palace of the Grand-duke Michael.--Equipments for Travelling.--Rough Riding.--Polan...
10. CHAPTER X.Travel by Night.--A Rencounter.--A Traveller's Message.--Lithuania.--Poverty of the Country.--Agricultural Implements.--Minsk.--Polish Jews.--A Coin of Freedom.--Riding in a Bas...
2. CHAPTER II.A lucky Encounter.--Church of the Catacombs.--A Visit to the Saints.--A tender Parting.--Pilgrims.--Rough Treatment.--A Scene of Starvation.--Russian Serfs.--Devotion of the Ser...
3. CHAPTER III.Moscow.--A severe Operation.--An Exile by Accident.--Meeting with an Emigré.--A civil Stranger.--A Spy.--The Kremlin.--Sepulchres of the Czars.--The great Bell.--The great Gun.-...
5. CHAPTER V.Getting a Passport.--Parting with the Marquis.--The Language of Signs.--A loquacious Traveller.--From Moscow to St. Petersburgh.--The Wolga.--Novogorod.--Newski Perspective.--An...
8. CHAPTER VIII.11. CHAPTER XI.4. CHAPTER IV.