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... carried me from the Polar Sea to the Ural Mountains , from the mouth of the Vistula to the Straits of Yeni Kale , including visits to the four holy shrines of Solovetsk , Pechersk , St. George , and Troitsa . My object being to paint ...
... carried me from the Polar Sea to the Ural Mountains , from the mouth of the Vistula to the Straits of Yeni Kale , including visits to the four holy shrines of Solovetsk , Pechersk , St. George , and Troitsa . My object being to paint ...
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... carry from six to eight hundred tons of oats and rye . A small section of the praam is boarded off to be used as a Some bits of pine are shaped into a stool , a table , and a shelf . From the roof - beam swings an iron pot , in which ...
... carry from six to eight hundred tons of oats and rye . A small section of the praam is boarded off to be used as a Some bits of pine are shaped into a stool , a table , and a shelf . From the roof - beam swings an iron pot , in which ...
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... carry into church their pots and pans , their jacks and urns ; each peasant with a taper in his hand , which he lights at the holy fire , and afterwards burns before his angel until it dies . Every new house in which a man lives , every ...
... carry into church their pots and pans , their jacks and urns ; each peasant with a taper in his hand , which he lights at the holy fire , and afterwards burns before his angel until it dies . Every new house in which a man lives , every ...
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... of herdsmen , driving their flocks from plain to plain , in search of grass and water ; camping either in tents of skin , or in frames of wood not much more solid than tents of skin ; carrying with them their wives 34 FREE RUSSIA .
... of herdsmen , driving their flocks from plain to plain , in search of grass and water ; camping either in tents of skin , or in frames of wood not much more solid than tents of skin ; carrying with them their wives 34 FREE RUSSIA .
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William Hepworth Dixon. than tents of skin ; carrying with them their wives and chil- dren , their weapons of war , and their household gods . They chased the wild game of their country , and when the wild game failed them , they ate ...
William Hepworth Dixon. than tents of skin ; carrying with them their wives and chil- dren , their weapons of war , and their household gods . They chased the wild game of their country , and when the wild game failed them , they ate ...
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