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Peter and Alexis: The Romance of Peter the Great

by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

★4.0/5
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CHAPTER I THE DIARY OF FRAULEIN ARNHEIM, MAID OF HONOUR May 1, 1714. A CURSED country, a cursed people! Brandy, blood, and dirt! It is difficult to say which is the ruling characteristic. Dirt, perhaps. The Danish King had good reason to say : " The next time ambassadors from Muscovy come to me, I will have pig-sheds erected for , them, for any place they occupy, even a short time, is ' rendered uninhabitable for at least six months by the stench. A Frenchman describes the Muscovite as a human being according to Plato ; a featherless biped possessing all human qualities except cleanliness and ...

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