Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788: The Journal and Selected LettersUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1966 - 293 pages |
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Page 48
... reasons lying behind Catherine's decision . In a letter to Lafayette written thirty - five years after Ledyard's journey , Ségur stated : I have no longer any letters in my possession relative to the cele- brated traveller Mr. Ledyard ...
... reasons lying behind Catherine's decision . In a letter to Lafayette written thirty - five years after Ledyard's journey , Ségur stated : I have no longer any letters in my possession relative to the cele- brated traveller Mr. Ledyard ...
Page 50
... reasons were other than those suggested by Dvoichenko - Markov . Of all the varied suggestions offered as to the reason for Ledyard's arrest , that of Sparks , that it was to protect Russia's American colonies , is the most plausible ...
... reasons were other than those suggested by Dvoichenko - Markov . Of all the varied suggestions offered as to the reason for Ledyard's arrest , that of Sparks , that it was to protect Russia's American colonies , is the most plausible ...
Page 124
... reason - the true reason in the specula of the secretarys eye- & so damn his eyes — which in this case parti- cularly I concieve to be polite language : I hate ill nature & pity a fool . Sir I have waited on the Secretary of the french ...
... reason - the true reason in the specula of the secretarys eye- & so damn his eyes — which in this case parti- cularly I concieve to be polite language : I hate ill nature & pity a fool . Sir I have waited on the Secretary of the french ...
Contents
A Biographical Sketch | 3 |
Significance and Problems of Interpre | 32 |
Siberia in the Eighteenth Century | 53 |
Copyright | |
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