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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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i^»2 tTwf-tla-rlti. M^^^ SOME OF KUILOFF S FRIENDS. for various publications, but never made a hit nntil about his fortiethyear, when he took some fables from La Fontaine and adapted them to theconditions of life in Russia. He showed them to a friend, who printedthem in The Moscow Spectator, where they attracted much attention.Kriloff was encouraged to continue this style of writing. For the rest ofhis life his literary labors were almost wholly devoted to fables. He diedin November, 1844, at the good old age of seventj-six. At his funeral the streets were crowded, and the Church of St.Isaac could not hold all who came to take part in the services. Soon afterhis death a popular subscription was started, and the children of all classescontributed to it. The money was expended for the erection of the statue A CONVENTION. 123 ...^ M
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kriloffs characters in convention. 124: THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. before us. You observe that the space around it is the favorite play-ground of the children, and no more appropriate spot could have beenchosen. The statue represents Kriloff in a dressing-gown, seated in an arm-chair, with liis liead slightly inclined forward, and looking pleasantly down-ward. The pedestal of the monument is adorned with reliefs of the ani-mals that figured in his fables—oxen, horses, cows, sheep, donkeys, foxes,wolves, hens, lions, etc., and thereby hangs a story: The Emperor Nicholas was fond of choosing as his ministers and ad-visers men who were not likely to oppose any of his measures. The in-competency of his ministry was notorious both in Russia and other coun-tries. When his successor, Alexander IL, ascended the throne, he wasasked why he did not retain the ministry of Nicholas instead of choosinga new one. lie replied, My father was a man of such transcendent abil-ity that he

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