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But driven back, little by little, from the mercantile portion of the place, they were compelled to take refuge in the upper town. It was there that the Governor-General, his officers, and soldiers had entrenched themselves. They had made the upper quarter of Omsk a kind of citadel, and hitherto they held out well in this species of improvised "kreml," but without much hope of the promised succor.
The highest of these is built on a steep rock, and defended by a fort called in Russia "kreml." Michael Strogoff expected some trouble in finding a hotel, or even an inn, to suit him. As he had not to start immediately, for he was going to take a steamer, he was compelled to look out for some lodging; but, before doing so, he wished to know exactly the hour at which the steamboat would start.
Peter the Great On the very day when the Grand Monarch watched his army cross the Rhine under the generals Turenne and Condé a man was born possessed of the same strong individuality as Louis XIV, a man whose rule was destined to work vast changes in the mighty realms to the extreme east of Europe. On 30th May, 1672, Peter, son of Alexis, was born in the palace of the Kreml at Moscow.
I was going towards her; but she herself came to meet me. 'Let's go to the Kreml wall, she whispered in a hurried voice, running her downcast eyes over the ground; 'there are people here. We went along the path up the hill. 'Musa Pavlovna, I was beginning.... But she cut me short at once.
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