Letters from a Lady, Who Resided Some Years in Russia, to Her Friend in England
Subtitle: With Historical Notes
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: July 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781421254975
Subjects: letters,Russia,historical notes,description,Mrs William Vigor; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Travel / Asia / China
First sentence: YOU, who are miftrefs of fo much philofophy, are excufable for fancying that, now the ceremony of our reception is over, I may be compofed enough to give you fome account of the place my rambling planet has thrown me into; but for me, who have ftrong paffions, and that infeparable companion of them, weak reafon, I cannot fo foon forget my friends and country, but am (notwithftanding the mafk I wore before my departure) feeling thofe paffions with a double force that were reftrained in the fatal hour of feparation.