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Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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erine II. established for the informal parties she used tohave at the Hermitage. Catherine had literary aspirations, and her partieswere in imitation of the salons of Paris, which have a wide celebrity.Here is a translation of the rules, which I take from Murrays Hand-book : 1 Leave your rank outside, as well as your hat, and especially your sword. 2. Leave your right of precedence, your pride, and any similar feeling, outside thedoor. 3. Be gay, but do not spoil anything; do not break or gnaw anything, 4. Sit, stand, walk as you will, without reference to anybody. 5. Talk moderately and not very loud, so as not to make the ears and heads of oth-ers ache. 6. Argue without anger and without excitement. 7. Neither sigh nor yawn, nor make anjbody dull or heavy. 8. In all innocent games, whatever one proposes, let all join. 9. Eat whatever is sweet and savory, but drink with moderation, so that each mayfind his legs on leaving the room. JOHN PAUL JONES AT THE RUSSIAN COURT. 101 %^^i:€%,
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RECEPTION OF JOHN PAUL JONES BY THE EMPRESS CATHERINE. 102 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. 10. Tell no tales out of school; whatever goes in at one ear must go out at the otherbefore leaving the room. A transgressor against these rules shall, on the testimony of two witnesses, for everyoffence drink a glass of cold water, not excepting the ladies, and further read a page ofthe Telemachiade aloud. Whoever breaks au) three of these rules during the same evening shall commit sixlines of the Telemachiade to memory. And whoever offends against the tenth rule shall not again be admitted. The Telemachiade which is prescribed as a penance was the workof a Russian poet of Catherines time, who does not seem to have enjoyedthe ImjDerial favor. It is said that invitations to these parties were muchsought; but, in spite of all her efforts, the Empress could not induce herguests to forget entirely that she was their sovereign. However, she man-aged to make her parties much less formal tha

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