Sophia – Baptism in the Dnieper – Suspension-bridge over the Dnieper – Progress to Odessa – Appearance of the people – Jewish Synagogue – Odessa – Prince Woronzow Motive for writing this book – Our party – Progress to Berlin – Encounter with the police – Russian railroads – Arrival in Warsaw – General Lamoricière – Death of the Grand Duke Michael – Etiquette in the Emperor's Park – Theatre at Warsaw – Masourka – Audience with the Emperor Nicholas – Jews in Warsawĭeparture from Warsaw – Feldt Yäger – Russian post-houses – Gytomir – Kief – St.
To them, even in a trifling production like this, would render these pages more incomplete than, it may be feared, There are in Persia many subjects not accessible to female inquiry yet the absence of all allusion The Notes attached to this volume are written by my Of political affairs may not perchance have deprived them Would hold, as friend or foe, a prominent position before There seemed at one moment a prospect that Persia, Manners and the tone of feeling and society at the presentĭay. Present volume is simply an attempt to describe the The commerce, and the antiquities of that country. The world acquainted with the literature, the geography, The histories, the travels,Īnd the novels of these distinguished writers have made Fraser, have nearly exhausted the subject of Persia. S IR J OHN M ALCOLM, Sir John M'Donald, Sir Robert LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, WITH NOTES ON RUSSIA, KOORDS, TOORKOMANS, Kurds charging, with Kettle-drummers leading. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1856.
With Additional Notes by Sir Justin Sheil, Knight General and Diplomat (1803-1871). Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia.īy Lady Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil (fl.1860).
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