num_pages: 408
description: During the whole evening the bands of the Preobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments had played without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among the choicest of their repertoires. Innumerable couples of dancers whirled through the magnificent saloons of the palace, which stood at a few paces only from the "old house of stones"-in former days the scene of so many terrible dramas, the echoes of whose walls were this night awakened by the gay strains of the musicians.
language: English
title: Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar
titlecomplete: Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar
characters: Alexander II of Russia, Nicholas Pigassof, Michael Strogoff, Ivan Ogareff, Feofar-Khan, Harry Blount, Sangarre, Wassili Fedor, Nadia Fedor, Alcide Jolivet, Serko, Marfa Strogoff
genres: Classics, Adventure, France, Historical, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 8980
places: Ekaterenburg, Russia, Kasan, Russia, Moscow, Russia, Irkutsk, Perm, Russia, Ichim, Russia, Krasnoiarsk, Russia, Omsk, Russia, Tomsk, Russia, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Nijni-Novgorod, Russia, Kolyvan, Russia
publisher: Book Jungle