The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
CHAPTER XXV.
RUSSIAN ART, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS.
Winter Palace.—Ways of Royalty.—Crown Jewels.—Orloff Diamond.— Hermitage.—Art Galleries.—Curious Code of Laws.—Royal Museum.—Peter’s Walking-stick.—Art Culture.—Condition of the Masses.—Laborers.— Mechanics.—Prices.—Rent.—Food.—Dress.—Peculiar Custom.—Polite Bankers.—Despot.—Justice.—Verdicts.—Story of Labanoff.—Siberia.— Abuses.—Academy of Science.—Zoological Museum.—Sunset on the Neva.— Boatman.—Light at Evening-tide
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