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

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an honest administration would be here both dangerous and ridiculous.

I hope to-morrow to reach Yaroslaf: it is a central city; and I shall stop there a day or two in order to discover, in the interior of the country, real original Russians. I took care, with this intention, to procure several letters of introduction to that capital of one of the most interesting and important provinces of the empire.