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lityfelttt ttpp ^ r classes , however , speak French fluently , and many etfftoitt English and German . The especial annoyance is this : Ike ftufeuies of the houses are beautiful enough , but the inside * ^ vtirm With the mos t ras cally vermin . Incorrigible flocks of fleas ; h&rge insidious bugs , of an autumnal hue ; galloping cockroaches with long whisking horns , and black-beetles , almost as large as j ^ Ws-harps ; with man y other disagreeable running and creeping rife !* ****
% / mm . M . M . M . mr cy * 1 ^ Every native you meet is a picture . The lower classes never sfoare , but let their beards grow after the dignified custom of tlie Israelites , a class of people whom they much resemble in their Stealings . Shopping is a great trial of the patience , particularly to a man whose wife has been excessively imposed upon , and wfco therefore undertakes the task in person , determined to have jtistice done him over the counter . They ask enormous prices ,
and take one-third of what they ask , provided always that your equanimity of temper and energy of perseverance enable you to sustain the requisite wordy war . I therefore used to set a day apart for the purpose , being generally unfit for anything afterwards ; my nerves in a twitter , my voice hoarse , and my thoughts pugnacious . I also suspect , and had good reasons for it , that my interpreters were not the most honest men in the known
WotW . In the streets of St Petersburg you meet people from till parts of the globe , in their native costumes . The emperor ' s * fej £ tinents of Georgian , Persian , Mingralian , and Tartarian cavalry , are very superb . Almost every one here is military , and obliged to
# ear mriform ; thus , with the exception of foreigners and native merchants , everybody you meet in the streets is a soldier . Then , afc for ribands and orders , the stars on a map of the heavens are ilbfc mote numerous . I have seen a private soldier with nine iiflferent orders on his breast . This is good as a matter of honour
conferred on merit ; but if he deserved all this , why was he sufft ¥ fed to remain a private ? I witnessed a superb f < 5 te on the 30 th of August ; it was occasioned by the uncovering of a magnificent granite column , erected tb th ^ memory of the late Emperor Alexander . AH the gr eat stiuare was turned into an amphitheatre for spectators ; several
kbttises had their roofs taken off , and seats built up in the place ; presenting the appearance , before being occupied , of skeleton ilov ^ HWxts or bee-hives . The palace had a temporary balcony fcfcfcfcted in front , with massive stairs on each side , corered witn
TOforlet doth down to the ground , very much in the grand style of a tfttitte ta Bluebeard on the stage . The emperor , empress , and . tfl "< tM ebUTt , with bishops , priests , generals , &cM assisted in tie tefeifeftfctiy , and walked in the procession . Te Deum was chaunted tft tfce often air , with fine effect , and made one think of th *
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$ 6 & Notes of a Trip to St Petersburg .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/42/
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