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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THE LAST. BOND AND FREE. The great holiday--the Carnival in some countries --Maslinitza or Sweatoi in Russia, the butter-week before Lent, is a time when the Russians give full scope to their powers of frolic. Waistless peasant women come abroad in all their finery of pink skirts, straight from heels to armpits, snowy teraphins, highcrowned head-dresses quivering with tinsel ornaments, red handkerchiefs, wide white sleeves-, red ribbons, and with much cordage of Siberian beads adorning their dun-coloured necks. The unmarried girls, with a yard of plaited black hair, are long-tailed charmers of the males, who don their best gray felts and sheepskins, blue caftans, polished boots, little low-crowned hats studded with white buckles and small peacock'sfeathers, and gird their loins with a red, blue, and white worsted sash. Such holiday-makers had taken possession of Evanoffsky, and were to their best ability making merry. They must make the most of their seven days, for after them shall follow a fast of seven weeks, during which no animal food is eaten. No man may then look on his wife, no sweetheart think of her betrothed; deeds of charity, prayer, penitence, BUTTER-WEEK. 273 confession, and self-denial are supposed to constitute the sum of human life. Harry and I during those weeks must kill our own meat, for nobody else will be our butcher. And so, to make the most of the holiday-week, parties of drunken moushicks stagger through the roads clasping one another round the neck, others lie sprawling on the ground among the dogs and pigs. The cabaks are full of customers, gulping down fiery vodki. You may see men go in quite sober, stand at the counter five minutes, throw back their heads four or five times as each tumbler-full vanishes, crying "Augh...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150048814
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150048816
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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