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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Russian frontier?Frontier police?Disappointment at aspect of Petrograd?Lord and Lady Dufferin?The British Embassy ? St. Isaac's Cathedral ? Beauty of Russian Church-music ? The Russian language ? The delightful Blue-stockings of Petrograd?Princesse Chatemi?Pleasant Russian Society?The Secret Police?The Countess's hurried journey?The Yacht Club?Russians really Orientals?Their limitations?The Intelligenzia ?My Nihilist friends?Their lack of constructive power?Easter Mass at St. Isaac's?Two comical incidents?The Easter supper ?The red-bearded young priest?An Empire built on shifting sand. Petrograd is 1,050 miles from Berlin, and forty years ago the fastest trains took forty-five hours to cover the distance between the two capitals. In later years the Nord-Express accomplished the journey in twenty-nine hours. Rolling through the flat fertile plains of East Prussia, with their neat, prosperous villages and picturesque black-and-white farms, the surroundings had such a commonplace air that it was difficult to realise that one was approaching the very threshold of the great, mysterious Northern Empire. Eydkuhnen, the last Prussian station, was as other Prussian stations, built of trim red brick, neat, practical, and very ugly; with crowds of red- faced, amply-paunched officials, buttoned into the tightest of uniforms, perpetually saluting each other. Wierjbolovo, or Wirballen Station as the Germans call it, a huge white building, was plainly visible only a third of a mile away. At Wirballen the German train would stop, for whereas the German railways are built to the standard European gauge of 4 feet 8 inches, the Russian lines were laid to a gauge of 5 feet 1 inch. This gauge had been deliberately chosen to prevent the invasion of Russia by...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458942883
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458942880
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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