The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 4Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest G. P. Putnam's sons, 1925 |
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Page 784
... beautiful forms of peasant art and melody . From north to south the people and their customs , their vil- lages and farmlands , are naturally subject to many variations , but in the main , with the exception of the Cossacks , a number ...
... beautiful forms of peasant art and melody . From north to south the people and their customs , their vil- lages and farmlands , are naturally subject to many variations , but in the main , with the exception of the Cossacks , a number ...
Page 794
... beautiful old em- broideries on strips or towels of linen and on gala dresses that have been passed down from one generation to another . The towels , ornamented with drawn - thread work , or elaborate red and white stitchery , are hung ...
... beautiful old em- broideries on strips or towels of linen and on gala dresses that have been passed down from one generation to another . The towels , ornamented with drawn - thread work , or elaborate red and white stitchery , are hung ...
Page 797
... beautiful as that round which are grouped the six monasteries of the Petcherskaya Laura . The foundation of this famous shrine is attributed to Hilarion , Metropolitan of Kiev in the early years of the eleventh century , who lived in a ...
... beautiful as that round which are grouped the six monasteries of the Petcherskaya Laura . The foundation of this famous shrine is attributed to Hilarion , Metropolitan of Kiev in the early years of the eleventh century , who lived in a ...
Page 804
... beautiful and the most animated of all the fine streets of Petrograd , that " town of magnificent distances . " It is nearly forty yards wide and some three miles long . towns of Jaroslav , Kostroma , Nizhni Novgorod , past. PETROGRAD ...
... beautiful and the most animated of all the fine streets of Petrograd , that " town of magnificent distances . " It is nearly forty yards wide and some three miles long . towns of Jaroslav , Kostroma , Nizhni Novgorod , past. PETROGRAD ...
Page 805
... beautiful except above and below Simbirsk , yet the Volga has a fascination hard to define , chiefly owing to its breadth , its slow and deliberate flow after the winter snows have melted , and to that strange and mysterious force with ...
... beautiful except above and below Simbirsk , yet the Volga has a fascination hard to define , chiefly owing to its breadth , its slow and deliberate flow after the winter snows have melted , and to that strange and mysterious force with ...
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