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Sometimes we stopped in at a traktir and had a portion or two, dashed with a little Cognac, which my friends assured me would prevent it from having any injurious effect upon the nervous system.
One of the large Moscow traktirs is not only very much larger, but at least twelve times larger than an ordinary French café. The best of them is the Troitzkoi traktir, where the merchants meet to complete the bargains they have commenced on the Exchange that is to say in the street beneath, where all business is carried on, summer and winter, in the open air. St.
I noticed that the traktir, in settling accounts with his customers, made use of a peculiar instrument commonly seen in the shops and market-places throughout the city. Behind a sort of bar or counter at the head of the room he kept what is called a schot, upon which he made his calculations. This is a frame about a foot square, across which run numerous wires.
We had purposely informed him of some of our suspicions, hoping that he might make you uneasy, for we knew perfectly well that Razoumikhin would not be able to contain his indignation. Zametoff, in particular, had been struck by your boldness, and it certainly was a bold thing for a person to exclaim all of a sudden in an open traktir: 'I am an assassin! That was really too much of a good thing.
Enmities are forgotten and friendships cemented in tea. In short, the traktir is an institution, and its influence extends through all the ramifications of society. But it is in the gardens and various places of suburban resort that the universal passion for tea is displayed in its most pleasing and romantic phases.
It is truly one of the luxuries of life so soft; so richly yet delicately flavored; so bright, glowing, and transparent as it flashes through the crystal glasses; nothing acrid, gross, or earthly about it a heavenly compound that "cheers but not inebriates." "A balm for the sickness of care, A bliss for a bosom unbless'd." Come with me, friend, and let us take a seat in the traktir.
Yet he was polite, dignified, and gentlemanly never refused to drink a glass of beer with me, and always knew the way to a traktir. To the public functionaries with whom we came in contact during the course of our rambles his air was grand and imposing; and on the subject of money he was sublimely nonchalant, caring no more for rubles than I did for kopeks.
His aunt had, at least, paid him a compliment in this flight. Evidently she was afraid of him of his poor power! And little Natusha had cried for three days and three nights! At thought of this, all the love and all the chivalry in him rose. That she should be abused because of an act of his! He ground his heels into the rough, wooden floor of the little traktir, and began to think more rapidly.
Men in clean coats and shining boots, liberated from the factories, it being Sunday, and women with bright silk kerchiefs on their heads and cloth jackets trimmed with jet, were already thronging at the door of the traktir. Policemen, with yellow cords to their uniforms and carrying pistols, were on duty, looking out for some disorder which might distract the ennui that oppressed them.
During the meal a good red native wine, called traktir by the Tartars, and ghwino by the Georgians, is very freely circulated. It is drunk from flat silver bowls greatly resembling saucers. Klaproth's account of the different incidents of his journey is no less interesting and vivid than this description of the manners of the people.
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