The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
CHAPTER XXIII.
FROM WARSAW TO ST. PETERSBURG.
Pretentious Hotel.—Splendid Bridge.—Polite Ticket-seller.—Cars.— Prairie.—Wretched Peasantry.—Jews.—Railroad Employes.—Lapy.—Mother and Son.—Bialystok.—Grodno.—Diet of Poland.—Last King of Poland.—Jewish Holiday.—Lithuania.—Plains.—Napoleon’s Hill.—Monument.—Wilna.—Ruins.— Insurrection.—Babel.—Dunaberg.—Captive.—Short Night.—Serfs.—Reform.— Board of Arbitrators.—Emancipation.—Pskof.—Lady Smoker.—St. Petersburg
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