Chapter I: Front Matter

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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN GREECE, TURKEY, RUSSIA AND POLAND.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT, ARABIA PETRAEA, AND THE HOLY LAND."

WITH A MAP AND ENGRAVINGS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SEVENTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1853.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HARPER &
BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I. Page

Choice of a Conveyance.--Hiring a Servant.--Another
American.--Beginning of Troubles.--A Bivouac.--Russian Jews.--The
Steppes of Russia.--A _Traveller's_ Story.--Approach to
Chioff.--How to get rid of a Servant.--History of Chioff. 7

CHAPTER II.

A lucky Encounter.--Church of the Catacombs.--A Visit to the
Saints.--A tender Parting.--Pilgrims.--Rough Treatment.--A Scene
of Starvation.--Russian Serfs.--Devotion of the Serfs.--Approach
to Moscow. 28

CHAPTER III.

Moscow.--A severe Operation.--An Exile by Accident.--Meeting with an
Emigre.--A civil Stranger.--A Spy.--The Kremlin.--Sepulchres of
the Czars.--The great Bell.--The great Gun.--Precious Relics. 45

CHAPTER IV.

The Drosky.--Salle des Nobles.--Russian
Gaming.--Gastronomy.--Pedroski.--A Sunday in Moscow.--A Gipsy
Belle.--Tea drinking.--The Emperor's Garden.--Retrospective. 67

CHAPTER V.

Getting a Passport.--Parting with the Marquis.--The Language of
Signs.--A loquacious Traveller.--From Moscow to St.
Petersburgh.--The Wolga.--Novogorod.--Newski Perspective.--An
unfortunate Mistake.--Northern Twilight. 85

CHAPTER VI.

Police Requisites.--The Russian Capital.--Equestrian Statue of Peter
the Great.--The Alexandrian Column.--Architectural Wonders.--The
Summer Islands.--A perilous Achievement.--Origin of St.
Petersburgh.--Tombs of dead Monarchs.--Origin of the Russian Navy.
97

CHAPTER VII.

A Carroty Pole.--The Winter Palace.--Importance of a Hat.--An
artificial Mine.--Remains of a huge Monster.--Peter the Great's
Workshop.--The Greek Religion.--Tomb of a Hero.--A Saint
Militant.--Another Love Affair.--The Hermitage.--The Winter and
Summer Gardens. 118

CHAPTER VIII.

An Imperial Fete.--Nicolas of Russia.--Varied Splendours.--A
Soliloquy.--House of Peter the Great.--A
Boatrace.--Czarskoselo.--The Amber Chamber.--Catharine II.--The
Emperor Alexander. 140

CHAPTER IX.

The Soldier's Reward.--Review of the Russian Army.--American
Cannibals.--Palace of Potemkin.--Palace of the Grand-duke
Michael.--Equipments for Travelling.--Rough
Riding.--Poland.--Vitepsk.--Napoleon in Poland.--The Disastrous
Retreat.--Passage of the Berezina. 154

CHAPTER X.

Travel by Night.--A Rencounter.--A Traveller's
Message.--Lithuania.--Poverty of the Country.--Agricultural
Implements.--Minsk.--Polish Jews.--A Coin of Freedom.--Riding in a
Basket.--Brezc.--The Bug.--A searching Operation.--Women
Labourers.--Warsaw. 181

CHAPTER XI.

Warsaw.--A Polish Doctor.--Battle of Grokow.--The Outbreak.--The
fatal Issue.--Present Condition of Poland.--Polish Exiles.--Aspect
of Warsaw.--Traits of the Poles. 199

CHAPTER XII.

Religion of Poland.--Sunday in Warsaw.--Baptized Jews.--Palaces of
the Polish Kings.--Sobieski.--Field of Vola.--Wreck of a
Warrior.--The Poles in America.--A Polish Lady.--Troubles of a
Passport.--Departure from Warsaw.--An official Rachel.--A
mysterious Visiter. 215

CHAPTER XIII.

Friendly Solicitude.--Raddom.--Symptoms of a Difficulty.--A Court of
Inquisition.--Showing a proper Spirit.--Troubles
thickening.--Approaching the Climax.--Woman's Influence.--The
Finale.--Utility of the Classics.--Another Latinist.--A Lucky
Accident.--Arrival at Cracow. 235

CHAPTER XIV.

Cracow.--Casimir the Great.--Kosciusko.--Tombs of the Polish
Kings.--A Polish Heroine.--Last Words of a King.--A Hero in
Decay.--The Salt-mines of Cracow.--The Descent.--The
Mines.--Underground Meditations.--The Farewell. 254

INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN GREECE, TURKEY, RUSSIA, AND POLAND.