Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for TravellersK. Baedeker, 1914 - 590 páginas |
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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers Karl Baedeker (Firm) Visualização integral - 1914 |
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16th cent adorned Alexander Alexander II Baltic Bolshaya Bridge Pl bronze built Cabinet castle Cathedral Catherine Catherine II chapel château Church of St comp contains Courland cross déj district domes Dvina Empress entrance erected fares Farther Finland Finnish floor Gallery Garden German glass-case granite Greek Catholic Gulf of Finland harbour Helsingfors Hermitage Hotel Imatra Imperial inhab island Iván Kiev Krakowskie Przedmieście Kremlin Lake left bank lies Livonia Lutheran Church marble middle Mokotów Monastery Moscow Museum Nevá Nevski Nicholas Novgorod numerous Office Oranienbaum paintings Palace park Pereúlok Peter Peterhof Petersburg Poland Polish Portrait Prince Prospékt province Pskov Rail Railway Restaurant railway station Reval Riga right bank Room Russian side silver skaya Square Pl Station Pl steamer summer Teutonic Order Theatre tower town train Tramways Tzar vases viâ Viborg village Vilna Vistula Vitebsk Volga wall Warsaw week-days winter Zastáva
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Página 281 - Venetian leaders, in 1206, forcibly broke into the Church of St. Sophia and carried off a picture of the Virgin, said to have been painted by St. Luke, in which popular superstition imagined her to reside, and kept it in spite of excommunication and interdict launched against them by the patriarch and confirmed by the papal legate. Fairly illustrative of this belief is a story told of a merchant of Groningen who in one of his voyages coveted the arm...
Página xlii - Church, and feudal superior. They are easily disciplined, and so make excellent soldiers, but have little power of independent thinking or of initiation. The normal Great Russian is thus the mainstay of political and economic inertia and reaction. Even the educated Russian gives comparatively little response to the actual demands of life; he is more or less the victim of fancy and temperament, which sometimes lead him to a despondent slackness, sometimes to emotional outbursts. Here we have the explanation...
Página xlvii - Slavonians arose strong internal dissensions ; the clans rose against each other. Then, for the creation of order and safety, they resolved to call in princes from a foreign land. In the year 862...
Página liv - The lower classes live in unspeakable poverty and destitution. Beggars are very troublesome, especially in the vicinity of churches.
Página 445 - A TRIP THROUGH THE EASTERN CAUCASUS, with a Chapter on the Languages of the Country.
Página 102 - Pereulok, is an extensive building painted white and enclosing several courts. It was erected in 1761-85 by Vallin de la Mothe and completely rebuilt at the end of the igth century. The arcades on the ground floor and the first floor contain about 200 shops, which, however, are less elegant than the other shops on the Nevskij.
Página 500 - We are in a city which was born and nurtured in the East, but is beginning to clothe itself at a West-End's tailor's.
Página xlii - It is fitting to recall this in the streets of Leningrad, capital of Red Europe, the city which has suffered more than any other in the cause of the Revolution. I quote from Karl Baedeker, that ever impartial source of the Russia of 1914: "Their character has been influenced not only by a long history of subjugation to feudal despotism, but also by the gloomy forests, the unresponsive soil, and the rigorous climate, and especially by the enforced inactivity of the long winters. In disposition they...
Página 105 - E5, 77), the largest church in St. Petersburg, built in 1819-58, in the place of an earlier church, after plans by the French architect, Ricard de Monferrand. The cost of the building amounted to more than 23,000,000 rb. — The cathedral, built of granite and marble with a lavish disregard of cost, is in the shape of a cross 364 ft. long and 315 ft. wide, and is crowned by an enormous gilded dome, visible at a great distance.