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

SPEED OF TRAVELLING.229

ROAD FROM PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW. — SPEED OF TRAVELLING. —

A LIVONIAN. PUNISHMENT OF A POSTILLION. — THE BEST

MEANS OF GOVERNING. ENGLISH CARRIAGES ON RUSSIAN

ROADS. THE COUNTRY PEOPLE. ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY.

THE POST-HOUSE. MOUNTAINS OF VALDAI. COSTUME OF THE

PEASANTRY. RUSSIAN LADIES EN DESHABILLE. SMALL RUS

SIAN TOWNS. TORJECK RUSSIAN LEATHER. CHICKEN FRI

CASSEE. A DOUBLE ROAD. ¦

I am writing at Pomerania, a post town eighteen leagues from Petersburg.

To travel post on the road from Petersburg to Moscow, is to treat one's self for whole days to the sensation experienced in descending the montagnes Russes at Paris. It would be well to bring an English carriage to Petersburg, if only for the pleasure of travelling on really elastic springs this famous road, the best chaussée in Europe, according to the Russians,