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The Diary of a Russian Lady

Barbara Doukhovsky

English

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This book was not intended to be published, and it is to accident that we owe its appearance.

The author, from her childhood, followed affectionate advices and good examples, and noted every day her impressions of everything she saw and heard about her. She puts in these pages all the freshness and sincerity of her woman’s heart.

Circumstances placed the author in the centre of remarkable events. Remaining faithful to the principle of not interfering with her husband’s business, she becomes, however, unwillingly, the spectatrix of particularly interesting facts: the outside of war, of different centres of Russian society, of exotic life in foreign colonies and on our remote frontiers, including the regions of the river Amour in Eastern Siberia.

Our author does not pretend to give a thorough and complete study of political events and society customs. But here we have vivid pictures of different impressions which, linked together, give us a living picture of places, events, and persons; real life in fact is delineated in this book, which has thus become a considerable work.

The author’s innate talent, her education, her faculty of observation, and her deep study of the best Russian and foreign writers, are the cause of the vivid impression produced by her light and clear style. Some portions of these studies entitled “Fragments of the Diary of a Russian woman in Erzeroum,” were printed in one of the most famous Russian periodicals. The welcome they received showed the author to what use she could turn her book for her works of charity, and it is her desire to assist the poor which gave to Barbara Doukhovskoy the idea of publishing her “Memories,” though the great realism of them did not permit of their publication as a whole.

Profiting by the right of having been a friend and a playmate of the author’s husband, I insisted on the necessity of publishing this work.

Not only by the truth and the spontaneity of her impressions, but by the profoundness of her observations and the artistic conception of the whole, the author of this book now embellishes our literature by a work of an exceptional and original character. - Summary by Constantin Sloutchevsky from the Preface.

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  1. 1 001 - Early Recollections 15:29
  2. 2 002 - My First Trip Abroad 37:18
  3. 3 003 - My First Appearance in Society 17:04
  4. 4 004 - My Second Trip Abroad 5:42
  5. 5 005 - My Second Season in St. Petersburg 15:11
  6. 6 006 - Dolgik 5:32
  7. 7 007 - In St. Petersburg Again 3:12
  8. 8 008 - The Crimea 10:20
  9. 9 009 - Winter in St. Petersburg 10:28
  10. 10 010 - The Caucasus 32:24
  11. 11 011 - Marriage 10:54
  12. 12 012 - Tiflis 7:11
  13. 13 013 - Alexandropol 6:57
  14. 14 014 - The Turco-Russian War 31:19
  15. 15 015 - Kars 13:08
  16. 16 016 - On my way to Erzeroum 10:03
  17. 17 017 - Erzeroum 50:19
  18. 18 018 - Erzeroum continued 51:17
  19. 19 019 - St. Petersburg 4:50
  20. 20 020 - Moscow 23:21
  21. 21 021 - Moscow continued 43:40
  22. 22 022 - Our Journey Abroad 7:01
  23. 23 023 - Boulogne-sur-mer 5:16
  24. 24 024 - London 16:34
  25. 25 025 - Paris 11:29
  26. 26 026 - On our way to Lucerne 2:55
  27. 27 027 - Lucerne 26:13
  28. 28 028 - Interlaken 8:35
  29. 29 029 - Montreux 20:01
  30. 30 030 - Geneva 6:56
  31. 31 031 - Milan 10:46
  32. 32 032 - Villa D’Este 9:13
  33. 33 033 - Cernobbio 43:58
  34. 34 034 - Venice 3:46
  35. 35 035 - Florence 10:43
  36. 36 036 - Rome 8:27
  37. 37 037 - Naples 24:49
  38. 38 038 - Peissenberg 10:59
  39. 39 039 - On the Rhine 3:25
  40. 40 040 - Rotterdam 5:12
  41. 41 041 - London 18:56
  42. 42 042 - Moscow 4:29
  43. 43 043 - Biarritz 15:14
  44. 44 044 - Madrid 5:34
  45. 45 045 - Saragossa 18:24
  46. 46 046 - Barcelona 3:22
  47. 47 047 - San Remo 6:26
  48. 48 048 - Paris 2:59
  49. 49 049 - Moscow 7:02
  50. 50 050 - Copenhagen 9:35
  51. 51 051 - Moscow 5:01
  52. 52 052 - Paris 15:17
  53. 53 053 - Trouville 4:33
  54. 54 054 - Moscow 14:36
  55. 55 055 - A Trip to Egypt 1:51
  56. 56 056 - Constantinople 21:35
  57. 57 057 - Athens 3:52
  58. 58 058 - In Pharaoh Land 51:06
  59. 59 059 - Our way Back to Russia 17:57
  60. 60 060 - Promotion of my Husband to the Post of Governor-General of the Amour Province in Siberia 8:32
  61. 61 061 - Across the Atlantic 11:44
  62. 62 062 - New York 27:29
  63. 63 063 - Niagara Falls 9:24
  64. 64 064 - Chicago 15:38
  65. 65 065 - San Francisco 5:13
  66. 66 066 - Across the Pacific 23:57
  67. 67 067 - Yokohama 14:57
  68. 68 068 - Tokio 11:26
  69. 69 069 - Kobe 2:52
  70. 70 070 - Across the Inland Sea 4:18
  71. 71 071 - Nagasaki 4:14
  72. 72 072 - Across the Japanese Sea 1:57
  73. 73 073 - Siberia—Vladivostock 17:00
  74. 74 074 - Our Journey to Khabarovsk 19:42
  75. 75 075 - Khabarovsk 55:44
  76. 76 076 - Our Voyage around the World 12:16
  77. 77 077 - On our way to Japan 5:54
  78. 78 078 - Nagasaki 3:06
  79. 79 079 - From Nagasaki to Shanghai 2:32
  80. 80 080 - Shanghai 10:07
  81. 81 081 - Hong-Kong 13:29
  82. 82 082 - Saigon 7:48
  83. 83 083 - Singapore 7:39
  84. 84 084 - Java - Batavia 15:16
  85. 85 085 - Singapore 3:40
  86. 86 086 - Colombo 5:49
  87. 87 087 - Aden 6:36
  88. 88 088 - Suez 3:10
  89. 89 089 - Port Saïd 2:48
  90. 90 090 - On the Mediterranean 1:47
  91. 91 091 - Marseilles 1:56
  92. 92 092 - Monte Carlo 1:15
  93. 93 093 - Nice 1:50
  94. 94 094 - Paris 1:16
  95. 95 095 - St. Petersburg—Coronation of Nicolas II 7:09
  96. 96 096 - Our way Back to Khabarovsk via Odessa 4:58
  97. 97 097 - Port Saïd 3:15
  98. 98 098 - Suez 2:51
  99. 99 099 - Aden 6:15
  100. 100 100 - Colombo 16:08
  101. 101 101 - Singapore 2:27
  102. 102 102 - From Singapore to Nagasaki 4:01
  103. 103 103 - Nagasaki 3:09
  104. 104 104 - Vladivostock 3:05
  105. 105 105 - Khabarovsk 9:24
  106. 106 106 - Back to Russia 2:15
  107. 107 107 - Vladivostock 2:41
  108. 108 108 - Nagasaki 4:06
  109. 109 109 - Shanghai 2:50
  110. 110 110 - Hong Kong 3:23
  111. 111 111 - Canton 9:23
  112. 112 112 - Macao 10:03
  113. 113 113 - Hong Kong 3:44
  114. 114 114 - Saigon 2:16
  115. 115 115 - Singapore 7:35
  116. 116 116 - From Singapore to Suez 12:42
  117. 117 117 - Suez 2:02
  118. 118 118 - Cairo 3:57
  119. 119 119 - Port Saïd 4:11
  120. 120 120 - St. Petersburg 6:08
  121. 121 121 - Our Journey to Tashkend 17:25
  122. 122 122 - Tashkend 28:16
  123. 123 123 - St. Petersburg 36:04
  124. 124 124 - A Short Peep at St. Petersburg and Back to Tashkend 16:32
  125. 125 125 - Paris World’s Fair 23:30
  126. 126 126 - Kissingen 7:42
  127. 127 127 - Back to Tashkend 4:28
  128. 128 128 - Definite Departure for St. Petersburg 3:26

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