RUSSIAN LIFE AND SOCIETY.

RUSSIAN LIFE AND SOCIETY AS SEEN IN 1866-’67 BY APPLETON AND LONGFELLOW, TWO YOUNG TRAVELLERS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHO HAD BEEN OFFICERS IN THE UNION ARMY, AND A JOURNEY TO RUSSIA WITH GENERAL BANKS IN 1869.

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WITH SKETCHES OF ALEXANDER II. AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND EMANCIPATION IN THE EMPIRE OF RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PREPARED BY

BREVET CAPTAIN NATHAN APPLETON

AUTHOR OF

“HARVARD COLLEGE DURING THE WAR.”

BOSTON, 1904.

Copyright, 1904 BY NATHAN APPLETON. (_All Rights Reserved._)

Press of Murray and Emery Company Boston, Massachusetts

TO

PRINCESS J—— G——

IN PLEASANT RECOLLECTION OF SKATING AT MOSCOW. JANUARY, 1867, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR

BOSTON, 1904.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Longfellow and Appleton _Frontispiece._ OP. PAGE Yacht Alice, Cowes, I. W., 1866 18 Captain, Passengers and Crew of the Alice 19 Rue de la Paix, à Paris 24 Gentlemen Riders of the Newport Race 31 Troika 38 Abraham Lincoln 43 Wilna 68 Statue of Kant, Königsburg, 1866 73 Single Sleigh 74 Nevski Prospect, St. Petersburg 81 Hon. Cassius M. Clay, Minister to Russia 82 Bolshaja Morskaja (Great Sea Street) 86 Christmas Shopping in St. Petersburg 87 The Kremlin, Moscow 100 Drinking Tea 105 A Coursier 110 The Staigg Portrait 117 Rosalie 125 The Blessing of the Neva 133 The Midnight Drive 140 Skating in the Yousoupoff Garden 141 Circassian Uniform 142 Sledge Drawn by Reindeer 151 Drosky 153 Charles Appleton Longfellow 156 Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, Representative from Massachusetts 160 Ferdinand de Lesseps 179 Alexander II., 1866 184 Odessa, 1899 207 Port Said. Opening of the Suez Canal 225

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