The land of the viking and the empire of the tsar; by Blackstock E. Frazer

Author:Blackstock, E. Frazer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1889-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

108 Land of the Viking.

brains and eyes were weary, and we longed for a pine table. The inlaid floors in all the palaces were the finest we had ever seen, and the massive doors were of gold, silver, buhl, bronze, and rarest woods, heavily carved. It seemed strange that so little attention is paid to the comfort of bedrooms ;—where and how they sleep seems to be the last problem the Russians consider. As for the innumerable servants, in palaces and houses of the nobility, they sleep on sofas, or the floor, just as it happens ; there are as many as one hundred and fifty employed in one residence, each having a special duty, and always refusing to do any thing outside of that particular department. The private apartments of Alexander L, kept exactly as he left them, are of great interest. His simple bedroom contains a camp bedstead; on a table are brushes, combs, shaving

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