Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON T. PETERSBURG remains always in my memory as a S lonely city, striving in vain to live up to its own vast scale. That scale was set by the Neva, widest and......
There Exists A Legend Of The Brilliance And Gaiety Of
the society of St. Petersburg during those nine years between the Russo-Japanese and the First German War. I am myself averse from large parties or late hours, and my view may......
Yet St. Petersburg, And Even Petrograd, Was - Too...
They still preserved in those days the little but where Peter the Great had first laboured upon the building of his " paradise." Across the river, the small summer-palace which......
From Time To Time Something Would Occur To Remind Me
that I was not seeing Russia at all. I took Russian lessons free a young student who had been recommended to my fathe (and this makes me laugh) by the Procurator of the Hell......
Then One Day, When I Was Driving With My Father,
heard a loud bang in the middle of the afternoon. On rennin! home we learnt that a bomb had been thrown into Stolypifn villa on the Apothecary Island and that some of his famill......
All That Was In August Of 1906. I Would Sit
on the balcony looking down upon the Neva and reading Crime and Punish- ment. It produced upon me a disturbing effect. I did not feel somehow that the Russian temperament......
What Pain And Misery And Fear Has Since Then Crept
al those untidy pavements and past those dull red frontag Even as I write von Leeb's armies are battering at the gat in a desperate attempt to find their winter-quarters. I nev......
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