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Updated: June 6, 2025
Malania Pavlovna was born at Moscow. She had been famous as the greatest beauty in Moscow la Venus de Moscou. I knew her as a thin old woman with delicate but insignificant features, with crooked teeth, like a hare's, in a tiny little mouth, with a multitude of finely crimped little yellow curls on her forehead, and painted eyebrows.
Every Russian looking at Moscow feels her to be a mother; every foreigner who sees her, even if ignorant of her significance as the mother city, must feel her feminine character, and Napoleon felt it. "Cette ville asiatique aux innombrables eglises, Moscou la sainte. La voila done enfin, cette fameuse ville!
The table d'hôte of the Hôtel de Moscou at Tver was no exception to the general rule. In Russia, by the way, there are no exceptions to general rules. The personal habits of the native of Cronstadt differ in no way from those of the Czar's subject living in Petropavlovsk, eight thousand miles away.
He then rang the bell and ordered liqueurs. There was evidently something in the nature of an entertainment about to take place in apartment No. 44 of the Hôtel de Moscou. Before long a discreet knock announced the arrival of the expected visitor. "Entrez!" cried Vassili; and De Chauxville stood before him, with a smile which in French is called crâne.
"You know, Count, such knights as you are only found in Madame de Souza's novels." "What knights? What do you mean?" demanded Pierre, blushing. "Oh, come, my dear count! C'est la fable de tout Moscou. Je vous admire, ma parole d'honneur!" * * "It is the talk of all Moscow. My word, I admire you!" "Forfeit, forfeit!" cried the militia officer. "All right, one can't talk how tiresome!"
The paper, white and of various colors, made from about forty trees and twenty different straws, grasses and forage-plants, is shown in large rolls. Of Russia there is not much to say except as regards the work of the École Impériale Technique de Moscou.
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