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Description:CHAPTER I THE DIARY OF FRAULEIN ARNHEIM, MAID OF HONOUR May 1, 1714. A CURSED country, a cursed people! Brandy, blood, and dirt! It is difficult to say which is the ruling characteristic. Dirt, perhaps. The Danish King had good reason to say : " The next time ambassadors from Muscovy come to me, I will have pig-sheds erected for , them, for any place they occupy, even a short time, is ' rendered uninhabitable for at least six months by the stench. A Frenchman describes the Muscovite as a human being according to Plato ; a featherless biped possessing all human qualities except cleanliness and common sense. And these stinking savages, these baptized bears, more pitiable still when changed into apes of Europeans, consider themselves the only human beings, the rest of mankind beasts. Especially for us Germans they feel an inborn and invincible hatred; our touch alone denles them. Lutherans are little better than Satan himself in their eyes. I would not remain another moment in Russia were it not for my duty of loyalty, and devotion to her Highness, my most gracious mistress and dear friend, the Crown Princess Sophia Charlotte. Whatever may happen, I will not forsake her ! I will write this diary in the languages I usually speak, German and French. But some of the jokes, proverbs,songs, text of ukases and bits of conversation, I will give in Russian and afterwards translate them. My father, a pure German, belongs to an ancient family of Saxon Knights. My mother was a Pole. With her first husband, a Polish nobleman, she had lived for a long time in Russia, not far from Smolensk, and knew the Russian language well. I was brought up in Torgau, at the court of the Queen of Poland, which was frequented by many Muscovi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Peter and Alexis: The Romance of Peter the Great. To get started finding Peter and Alexis: The Romance of Peter the Great, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: CHAPTER I THE DIARY OF FRAULEIN ARNHEIM, MAID OF HONOUR May 1, 1714. A CURSED country, a cursed people! Brandy, blood, and dirt! It is difficult to say which is the ruling characteristic. Dirt, perhaps. The Danish King had good reason to say : " The next time ambassadors from Muscovy come to me, I will have pig-sheds erected for , them, for any place they occupy, even a short time, is ' rendered uninhabitable for at least six months by the stench. A Frenchman describes the Muscovite as a human being according to Plato ; a featherless biped possessing all human qualities except cleanliness and common sense. And these stinking savages, these baptized bears, more pitiable still when changed into apes of Europeans, consider themselves the only human beings, the rest of mankind beasts. Especially for us Germans they feel an inborn and invincible hatred; our touch alone denles them. Lutherans are little better than Satan himself in their eyes. I would not remain another moment in Russia were it not for my duty of loyalty, and devotion to her Highness, my most gracious mistress and dear friend, the Crown Princess Sophia Charlotte. Whatever may happen, I will not forsake her ! I will write this diary in the languages I usually speak, German and French. But some of the jokes, proverbs,songs, text of ukases and bits of conversation, I will give in Russian and afterwards translate them. My father, a pure German, belongs to an ancient family of Saxon Knights. My mother was a Pole. With her first husband, a Polish nobleman, she had lived for a long time in Russia, not far from Smolensk, and knew the Russian language well. I was brought up in Torgau, at the court of the Queen of Poland, which was frequented by many Muscovi...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Peter and Alexis: The Romance of Peter the Great. To get started finding Peter and Alexis: The Romance of Peter the Great, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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