Russia - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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Lettres du comte Algarotti sur la Russie , contenant l'état du commerce, de la marine, des revenus, & des forces de cet empire: avec l'histoire de la guerre de 1735 contre les Turcs, & des observations sur la mer Baltique, & la mer Caspienne. Traduites de l'italien.
Algarotti, Francesco, 1712-1764.Date: [1769]- E-books
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Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia . Humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen; and, if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt, at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies; round the bottle and fire-side.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- E-books
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Anecdotes russes , ou lettres d'un officier allemand à un gentilhomme livonien, écrites de Petersbourg en 1762; tems du régne & du détrônement de Pierre III. Empereur de Russie: Recueillies & publiées par C. F. S. de la Marche.
Christian Friedrich SchwanDate: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- E-books
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A voyage to Russia Describing the laws, manners, and customs, of that Great Empire, as governed at this present by that Excellent Princess the Czarina. Shewing the beauty of her palace, the grandeur of her courtiers, the forms of building at Petersburgh, and other places: with several entertaining adventures that happened in the passage by Sea and Land. The second edition. To which is added, four letters, wrote by the author-when at Russia to a gentleman in London. Written and collected by Elizabeth Justice.
Justice, Elizabeth, d. 1752.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- E-books
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Anecdotes int�eressantes et secr�etes de la cour de Russie , tir�ees de ses archives; ... Publi�ees par un voyageur qui a s�ejourn�e treize ans en Russie.
Scherer, Jean Beno�t, b. 1741.Date: 1792