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He scoured the neighbourhood round St Petersburg in a calash at a cost of about four pounds. Russian methods of conducting business are amazing to the English mind. At Peterhof, a town about twenty miles out of St Petersburg, he found fifty reams of a paper such as he required. Borrow found that the law of commerce prevalent in the East was that adopted in St Petersburg.
He took off his bearskin for he was in the fullest of full dress and sat down. "I am so glad to find you at home," he said: "I feared you might have gone to church, like everybody else in this place." "No. I went early this morning. I belong to a different persuasion. I suppose you are on your way to Peterhof?" "Yes.
From the Germanic chaos emerged North Germany, the seed of which was Brandenberg, later on developing into Prussia, and finally the German Empire, which received the imperial crown at Versailles, but not from the hands of Rome. On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland lay the little village Strelna, halfway between Petersburg and the half-completed Peterhof.
The manifesto of the empress, which had been secretly printed, was distributed throughout the city, and a day appointed when the foreign embassadors would be received by Catharine. The revolution seemed already accomplished without a struggle and almost without an effort. From 1762 to 1765. Peter III. at Oranienbaum. Catharine at Peterhof. The Successful Accomplishment of the Conspiracy.
Every year, on the 8th of July, there is a grand festival at Peterhof in honor of Peter and Paul, the patron saints of the imperial house. This was the time fixed upon by Catharine and her friends for the accomplishment of their plans. The tzar, on the evening of the 8th of July, was at Oranienbaum, surrounded by a bevy of the most beautiful females of his court. Catharine was at Peterhof.
By such means did Rasputin retain the favour of the people and of the Empress herself. One night he received a telegram in cipher, which he gave me to decode. It had been despatched from Paris and read: "The appointment is at Savignyplatz, 17, Charlottenburg. Do not fail. At once Rasputin became active. He went to Peterhof, where the Court was at that moment, and carried out Azef's desire.
Relations with Russia were still further improved by the rebaptism of the infant Crown Prince Boris according to the rites of the eastern Church, in February 1896, and a couple of years later Ferdinand and his wife and child paid a highly successful state visit to Peterhof.
The royal residences of Peterhof and Tsarshoé Sélo I also found to contain much in the way of art, and yet scarcely of sufficient importance to need special description. The Imperial Hermitage alone repays a journey to St.
In the evening, however, an officer, with a strong escort, came and conveyed him a prisoner to Ropscha, a small imperial palace about fifteen miles from Peterhof. Peter, after his disgraceful reign of six months, was now imprisoned in a palace; and his wife, whom he had intended to repudiate and probably to behead, was now sovereign Empress of Russia.
A week later I accompanied the Starets to have his first audience with His Majesty the Emperor at the Palace of Peterhof, that wonderful Imperial residence where the great Samson Fountain in gilded bronze throws up from the lion's jaws a thick jet seventy feet high, in imitation of Versailles, and where nearly six hundred servants were employed in various capacities.
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