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Identifier: mylifeherethere00kant (find matches)
Title: My life here and there
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Kantakuzen, Julia Grant, kniaginia, 1876-
Subjects: Austria -- Court and courtiers Russia -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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wn eyes, and then stretched out hisarms and took possession of a willing conquest. It wasnice to see the two together and to mark the mutual loveof the great, strong grandfather and the wee boy. From St. Petersburg to Bouromka we went by Moscowand Kieff, which I had never visited till then, and whichI vastly enjoyed in such company. Everything was made simple and easy for us by theexcellent ability to organize which the fifteen-year-oldGuy displayed in piloting our big party. Restaurants,museums, excursions, or train accommodations were ap-parently all equally easy problems for this young ciceroneto handle, and, without a single word or sign of agitation,he carried our party of six through two weeks of variedexperiences, travelling and sightseeing. He finished upby landing his charges at Bouromka one morning atearly dawn. It was very amusing to show my family the life of thegreat agricultural district of Russia, with its wavingfields of wheat, its myriad workers, and all the machinery
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CHILDREN OF PRINCE AND PRINCESS CANTACUZENE -MICHAEL, BERTHA, AND IDA. THE JAPANESE WAR 281 we used. That we were so far from a railroad and sodependent on ourselves for everything, yet so able, byorganized effort, to supply ourselves and be comfortable,even luxurious, surprised them. The enormous spaceoutside and in the house, the number of servants andwork-hands in the chateau and on the estate, the beautyof the park and lake, the rolling land and forests, therichness of soil and crops, the size of our herds and thevariety of our production dazed their American men-tality, used to ringing a telephone or buying things ready-made, without previous planning. That we made thebricks, cut the timber, forged the metal, had our ownplumbers, our doctors for man and beast, produced ourown food, whether it was the butchers meat, the smokedhams and game, the fish, vegetables, bread, sweets, andso on; made our own linen and kitchen pottery largely,did the panelling, inlaying, or carving, making ru

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