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The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with Accounts of a Tour across Siberia, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from Its Foundation to the Present Time — John Shaqi

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The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with Accounts of a Tour across Siberia, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from Its Foundation to the Present Time

Name: The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with Accounts of a Tour across Siberia, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from Its Foundation to the Present Time
Author: Knox, Thomas Wallace

Knox, Thomas Wallace

Adventure stories; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Exiles -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Natural history -- Juvenile fiction; Rivers -- Juvenile fiction; Russia -- History -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels -- Juvenile

DINNER IN A RUSSIAN RESTAURANT.--CABBAGE SOUP, FISH PIES, AND
  OTHER ODD DISHES.--THE "SAMOVAR" AND ITS USES.--RUSSIAN
  TEA-DRINKERS.--"JOLTAI CHAI."--ALEXANDER'S COLUMN.--FORTRESS OF
  STS. PETER AND PAUL.--IMPERIAL ASSASSINATIONS.--SKETCHES OF THE
  PEOPLE.--RUSSIAN POLICE AND THEIR WAYS.                             76

  CHAPTER V.

  NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.--PAN-SLAVIC UNION.--ST.
  ISAAC'S CHURCH: ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION.--THE WINTER PALACE AND
  THE HERMITAGE.--SIGHTS IN THE PALACE.--CATHERINE'S RULES FOR HER
  RECEPTIONS.--JOHN PAUL JONES IN RUSSIA.--THE CROWN JEWELS AND THE
  ORLOFF DIAMOND.--ANECDOTES OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.--RELICS OF PETER
  THE GREAT.--FROM PALACE TO PRISON.--TOMBS OF RUSSIA'S EMPERORS.--A
  MONUMENT AND AN ANECDOTE.                                           93

  CHAPTER VI.

  THE GOSTINNA DVOR: ITS EXTENT AND CHARACTER.--PECULIARITY OF
  RUSSIAN SHOPPING.--CURIOUS CUSTOMS.--OLD-CLOTHES
  MARKET.--HAY-MARKET.--PIGEONS IN RUSSIAN CITIES.--FROZEN
  ANIMALS.--CHURCH AND MONASTERY OF ST. ALEXANDER NEVSKI.--A
  PERSIAN TRAIN.--A COFFIN OF SOLID SILVER.--THE SUMMER
  GARDEN.--SPEAKING TO THE EMPEROR.--KRILOFF AND HIS
  FABLES.--VISIT TO A RUSSIAN THEATRE.--"A LIFE FOR THE CZAR."--A
  RUSSIAN COMEDY.                                                    110

  CHAPTER VII.

  NEWSPAPERS IN RUSSIA: THEIR NUMBER, CHARACTER, AND
  INFLUENCE.--DIFFICULTIES OF EDITORIAL LIFE.--THE CENSORSHIP.--AN
  EXCURSION TO PETERHOF, ORANIENBAUM, AND CRONSTADT.--SIGHTS IN
  THE SUMMER PALACE.--CRONSTADT AND THE NAVAL STATION.--THE
  RUSSIAN NAVY.--THE RUSSIAN ARMY: ITS COMPOSITION AND
  NUMBERS.--THE COSSACKS.--ANECDOTES OF RUSSIAN MILITARY LIFE.       130

  CHAPTER VIII.

  VISITING THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. PETERSBURG.--EDUCATION IN
  RUSSIA.--PRIMARY AND OTHER SCHOOLS.--THE SYSTEM OF
  INSTRUCTION.--RECENT PROGRESS IN EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.--UNIVERSITIES
  IN THE EMPIRE: THEIR NUMBER AND LOCATION.--RELIGIOUS
  LIBERTY.--TREATMENT OF THE JEWS.--THE ISLANDS OF THE NEVA, AND
  WHAT WAS SEEN THERE.--IN A "TRAKTIR."--BRIBERY AMONG RUSSIAN
  OFFICIALS.                                                         150

  CHAPTER IX.

  STUDIES OF ST. PETERSBURG.--MUJIKS.--"THE IMPERIAL NOSEGAY."--A
  SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SERFDOM: ITS ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND
  ABUSES.--EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS.--PRESENT CONDITION OF THE
  PEASANT CLASS.--SEEING THE EMPEROR.--HOW THE CZAR APPEARS IN
  PUBLIC.--PUBLIC AND SECRET POLICE: THEIR EXTRAORDINARY
  POWERS.--ANECDOTES OF POLICE SEVERITY.--RUSSIAN COURTS OF LAW.     172

  CHAPTER X.

  WINTER IN RUSSIA.--FASHIONABLE AND OTHER FURS.--SLEIGHS AND
  SLEDGES.--NO SLEIGH-BELLS IN RUSSIAN CITIES.--OFFICIAL OPENING
  OF THE NEVA.--RUSSIAN ICE-HILLS.--"BUTTER-WEEK."--KISSING AT
  EASTER.--AN ACTIVE KISSING-TIME.--RUSSIAN STOVES AND
  BATHS.--EFFECTS OF SEVERE COLD.--THE STORY OF THE FROZEN
  NOSE.--HOW MEN ARE FROZEN TO DEATH.                                193

  CHAPTER XI.

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