Russia in 1839 -Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia

288 POPULATION OF PETERSBURG.

THE POPULATION OF PETERSBURG.SOLITUDE OF THE STREETS,—

THE ARCHITECTURE. PLACE DU CAROUSEL IN PARIS. SQUARE

OF THE GRAND DDKE AT FLORENCE. THE PERSPECTIVE

NEWSKI. PAVEMENTS. EFFECTS OF THE THAW.INTERIOR

OF THE HOUSES THE BEDS. VISIT TO PRINCE . —

BOWERS IN THE DRAWING-ROOMS. BEAUTY OF THE SLAVONIAN-

MEN. RUSSIAN COACHMEN AND POSTILLIONS. THE FELD-

JÄGER. THE POETICAL ASPECT OF THE LAND. — CONTRAST BE

TWEEN MEN AND THINGS. ARCHITECTURE OF THE CHURCHES.

— A GENERAL VIEW OF PETERSBURG. — PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL NOTWITHSTANDING ITS ARCHITECTURE. — NATURE BEAUTIFUL EVEN NEAR THE POLE. — ANTIPATHY BETWEEN THE TEUTONIC AND RUSSIAN RACES. — ITS EFFECTS IN POLAND.—

RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE RUSSIANS AND SPANIARDSHEAT

OF THE SUMMER. FUEL IN PETERSBURG. —ADDRESS OF THE

RUSSIAN PEOPLE. THE DESIGNS OF PROVIDENCE. — FUTURE

SCARCITY OF FUEL IN RUSSIA.WANT OF INVENTIVE MECHANICAL

GENIUS AMONG THE PEOPLE.THE ROMANS OF THE NORTH.

RELATION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS. — THE PLASTERERS. — UGLINESS AND DIRTINESS OF THE WOMEN OF THE LOWER CLASSES. — THEIR DISPROPORTION IN POINT OF NUMBER, AND ITS RESULT. —ASIATIC MANNERS. — RUSSIAN POLITENESS.

The population of Petersburg amounts to four hundred and fifty thousand souls, besides the garrison. So say patriotic Russians: but those who are well informed, and who consequently pass here for evil-disposed persons, assure me that it does not reach to four hundred thousand, in which number the garrison is included. Small houses of wood occupy the quarters beyond those immense spaces, called squares, that form the centre of the city.