Travels in Russia and a residence at St. Petersburg and Odessa, in the years 1827-1829. Intended to give some account of Russia as it is, and not as it is represented to be, &c. &c / By Edward Morton.

Morton, Edward, 1799?-1859.

Date:: 1830

Credit: Travels in Russia and a residence at St. Petersburg and Odessa, in the years 1827-1829. Intended to give some account of Russia as it is, and not as it is represented to be, &c. &c / By Edward Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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to call in question the veracity of all previous “ Knglish travellers,”’ (many of whose statements the present writer has been enabled, personally, to verify,) and also to make comparisons which reflect unjustly upon England. Lest, however, it should be supposed that the strictures which he has considered it his duty to make upon “ St. Petersburg” are directed personally against its indefatigable author (of whose talents he enter- tains the highest opinion), he begs here most unequivocally to disclaim any such intention ; nor will he hesitate to add, that the particular, and, generally speaking, correct account of the Russian capital, in the work alluded to, amply justifies the success it has met with, notwith- standing the obvious bias with which it is written. The minuteness adhered to in the third and ninth chapters, in detailing the number of versts, &c., may perhaps appear objectionable, and prove tedious to the general reader, yet the difficulties of travelling in Russia, to a foreigner, are such, from the impossibility of finding any livre de post, or guide for the road, and from the barefaced roguery and extortions of the post-masters and secretaries, that the author has chosen rather to run the risk of rendering his description less in- teresting to some, in order that it may become more useful to others. In pursuance of this in- tention, therefore, not a single post-station has been omitted on the long line of road between

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