Sketches Of Russian Life

Excerpt from Sketches of Russian Life: Before and During the Emancipation of the SerfsThe author of this book, hurt in a railway accident when paying a short visit to England a few years ago, became a patient of the able surgeon and warm hearted gentleman to whom he desires gratefully to dedicate his volume.That surgeon, an old friend of mine, presently afterwards wrote to me that he had met with a gen tleman who knew more than most travellers of Rus sian Life; not only because he had lived long in Russia, and in its remoter parts as much as in the capital, but chiefly because he knew how to observe and seize at once the point of any character or inci dent. He had been persuaded to jot down some of his experiences, and here they were; surely, my friend thought, genuine enough to be worth public attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.