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Spurious counts and questionable Russian princesses were sure to find a cordial welcome there with princely luxury, moderate prices, and but very little confidence. Each person was called by the title which it pleased him to give on his arrival Excellency or Prince, according to his fancy.
To the honor of the best elements of the Finnish population, it must be said that the degree of prosperity attained by Finland during the past century under the egis of the Russian throne is perfectly evident to them; they know that it is the Russian Government which has resuscitated the Finnish race, systematically crushed down as it had been in the days of Swedish power.
"The local Bolsheviki of New York City at the Pan-Russian Congress held in Murphy's Rooms, Fourth Avenue, voted unanimously in favor of a Free Russia. Roubles never budged." With these examples in view, anybody, I think, could grasp the central principles of Russian finance.
In order, however, that they might all be properly provided for, he distributed them around among his own generals, giving to each Russian officer the charge of a Swedish officer of his own rank, granting, of course, to each one a proper allowance for the maintenance and support of his charge.
The Russian troops from the government of Yakutsk were advancing towards Irkutsk. They had concentrated along the upper course of the Lena. In six days they would arrive. Therefore, before six days had passed, Irkutsk must be betrayed. Ogareff hesitated no longer. One evening, the 2d of October, a council of war was held in the grand saloon of the palace of the governor-general.
Paris has more than once tasted the bitterness of humiliation; Norseman and Briton, Russian and German have bruised her fair body; the dire distress of civic strife has exhausted her strength, but she has always emerged from her trials with marvellous recuperation, more flourishing than before.
Ideas which he had momentarily entertained, enlistment in the Russian army, service with England, a career in the Indies, the return of the nabob, all such visions were set aside forever, and an application was sent for a transfer from the Army of Italy to that of the Rhine.
"Frightened; beat; run to earth myself, though I talked so bravely of running others to earth just now. Grace, I've been in prison!" "In prison? In a Russian prison? Oh, Mr. Thurnall!" "Ay, Grace, I'd tried everything but that; and I could not stand it. Death was a joke to that. Not to be able to get out!
He came in the early eighties direct from India, where he had been Private Secretary to the Viceroy. The position never suited his too independent character, and when the Chinese, perplexed over Russian questions, invited him to the Middle Kingdom, he gladly accepted their invitation. Unfortunately the visit was a failure.
The Anglo-Saxon is content to allow ideas that are inconsistent and irreconcilable to get along together as best they may in his mind, in order that he may somehow get something done. Not so the Russian. Dr.
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