gastinitza

Updated: May 17, 2025

The Major was puzzled, and turning to Captain Martinoff remarked that the Russian language must be very comprehensive when a speech of twenty minutes could be translated in three or four words. On days when I was disengaged I dined at the Amoorski Gastinitza or Amoor Hotel.

Thomas Wallace Knox - Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar: Life