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Updated: May 21, 2025
Hoping later on to reach China by ascending the Ob to the imaginary Lake Kitaï that is, Kathay, or China the English renewed their efforts to discover the "north-east passage," and in 1580 two vessels, commanded by Arthur Ket and Charles Jackman, sailed for the Arctic Ocean; but they never got beyond the Kara Sea.
The fat Kister. Vygardt.... The "Kitai" was at the pier when we the detachment of twelve, guarding a silent man and a hysterical woman came there under the cover of night; it was raining, though the air was warm. The Irtysh stood fragrant with this odor of a big, noble river.
I visted the Imperial Theatre, which the Muscovites pronounce the finest in the world. To my mind it is only equaled by La Scala at Milan, or San Carlo at Naples. Outside it reminded me of our ci-devant Academy of Music. Inside it was gorgeous, well arranged, and spacious. The Kitai Gorod, or Chinese town of Moscow, is close by the Kremlin and outside its walls.
It is true in every case of life. So I was quiet for the night. I put my overcoat under my head and slept all night. "Madame L. obtained from the Princess G-n some particulars. So in addition to the reports forwarded to you through Hatzkelman, I herewith send you more: The Tsar's family arrived in Tobolsk from Tumen on the S/S "Russ" September 3rd, together with SS/SS "Kitai" and "Petrograd."
Williams in four volumes, which will tell you all about it. But the name did not mean the middle of the earth, as sometimes claimed, nor is it the foundation of the derisive term applied to China, 'The Central Flowery Nation. "Other names have been given to China, though seldom seen or heard; but Cathay, perhaps coming from the Russian name Kitai, is not at all uncommon, especially in poetry.
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