Book, Chapter
1 I, I | corps who represented at the Russian court the principal governments
2 I, II | Siberian provinces from the Russian crown.~Asiatic Russia, or
3 I, II | clemency, he had shown that Russian justice knew how to pardon.~
4 I, II | they will see again. No, a Russian would never unite with a
5 I, II | leave the arsenals of the Russian provinces, perhaps two or
6 I, II | certainly pass before the Russian troops could reach the Tartar
7 I, II | Tartars who now threatened the Russian Empire, belonged to the
8 I, II | poured his hordes over the Russian frontier. He invaded the
9 I, II | what part of Siberia the Russian troops had been forced to
10 I, III | blows; and, according to Russian legends, most huntsmen who
11 I, III | decisive formula of the Russian emperors.~The letter was
12 I, IV | distance between Moscow and the Russian frontier. Railroads, post-carriages,
13 I, IV | back, dressed in the simple Russian costume—tightly-fitting
14 I, IV | station. The stations on the Russian railroads are much used
15 I, IV | since been continued to the Russian frontier. It was a journey
16 I, IV | little father,” said a Russian traveler, in a bantering
17 I, IV | safety and integrity of the Russian territory before everything.
18 I, IV | It was evident that the Russian government purposed taking
19 I, IV | states of Western Europe. The Russian territory in Europe and
20 I, IV | one left behind.~With the Russian police, which is very arbitrary,
21 I, V | jug of kwass, the ordinary Russian beer, were placed before
22 I, V | soundly on one of those Russian beds which always seem so
23 I, V | Nijni-Novgorod.~“1st. All Russian subjects are forbidden to
24 I, VI | perfectly justifiable.~“All Russian subjects are forbidden to
25 I, VI | prolongation of the river along the Russian frontier, they were not
26 I, VI | was Livonian, consequently Russian, and now could not leave
27 I, VI | and now could not leave Russian territory! The permit which
28 I, VI | Without this precaution, some Russian more or less implicated
29 I, VII | of Russia. The system of Russian canals and rivers has been
30 I, VII | with the hearty voice spoke Russian, but with a French accent;
31 I, VIII| more than one of the great Russian nobles, who try to vie with
32 I, VIII| for Siberia, and that the Russian authorities could in no
33 I, VIII| easily obtained from the Russian government, an authorization
34 I, IX | one of the largest in the Russian Empire, and, extending over
35 I, IX | is no want of firs on the Russian frontier, and axle-trees
36 I, IX | hoped that the invention of Russian coach-builders will devise
37 I, IX | In the language of the Russian postillions the “crow” is
38 I, IX | incommoded him. He knew that a Russian driver never even tries
39 I, IX | an inn, the house of the Russian peasant would have been
40 I, X | the Poyas, which is the Russian name, they are correctly
41 I, XI | waiting for them. This worthy Russian had a fine open countenance,
42 I, XI | a forthcoming French and Russian dictionary: “Telga, a Russian
43 I, XI | Russian dictionary: “Telga, a Russian carriage with four wheels,
44 I, XII | morsel of Siberia lay in Russian jaws.~Neither Michael nor
45 I, XIII| Siberian provinces; and a Russian specially exempted from
46 I, XVI | and the Tartars. A small Russian force of two thousand men,
47 I, XVII| musketry!” said he. “The little Russian body is engaged with the
48 I, XVII| between Kolyvan and the Russian frontier.”~“For the government?”~“
49 I, XVII| August.~“Engagement between Russian and Tartar troops.”~The
50 I, XVII| brought him by Blount: “Russian fugitives are escaping from
51 II, I | the annihilation of the Russian force, which had vainly
52 II, I | have been able to pass the Russian frontier?”~“Why not?” answered
53 II, I | jealousy with regard to Russian pretensions in Central Asia.~“
54 II, I | doubt; but the villain is a Russian. He knows that it does not
55 II, I | can make our way into the Russian camp. We must not give up
56 II, II | was bringing a convoy of Russian and Siberian prisoners,
57 II, II | affair, had been saved by the Russian officer. She never forgot
58 II, II | still wore the uniform of a Russian officer.~As he was about
59 II, II | been sudden; and before the Russian army can succor them, Irkutsk
60 II, II | already raised aloft. The Russian had perceived that these
61 II, II | will do me a service. This Russian colonel in the midst of
62 II, II | gentlemen?” he asked in Russian, in a cold tone, but free
63 II, II | when we may rejoin some Russian regiment?”~“As you say,
64 II, III | flank and cut off by some Russian column descending from the
65 II, IV | possible, and to join a Russian regiment, and, if they could,
66 II, IV | from its very calmness.~“A Russian spy,” answered Ogareff.
67 II, IV | things of this earth.”~“Russian spy!” exclaimed Feofar-Kahn
68 II, V | and sequins, rained also Russian ducats and roubles.~Then
69 II, V | goings out and comings in, Russian spy. You have seen for the
70 II, VI | once that the young man was Russian; his face was phlegmatic,
71 II, VI | Ogareff is spoken of. Your Russian heart ought to leap when
72 II, VII | Something had occurred. A new Russian corps, hastily raised in
73 II, VII | thousand men, to which the Russian government could not as
74 II, VIII| overheard, “Perhaps that Russian can see, after all!”~Michael
75 II, IX | open to the invaders. No Russian force could be opposed to
76 II, X | by the Siberians that a Russian is never drowned in it.~
77 II, X | popular pastors which the Russian Empire contains. He was
78 II, X | dating their letters from the Russian camp of Eastern Siberia.
79 II, XII | provinces. Nikolaevsk, the last Russian town situated on the shore
80 II, XII | chiefs was Ivan Ogareff, a Russian officer whom he had himself
81 II, XII | to act without delay. The Russian troops from the government
82 II, XII | several occasions.”~“Is he a Russian?”~“Yes, a Russian from the
83 II, XII | Is he a Russian?”~“Yes, a Russian from the Baltic provinces.”~“
84 II, XIII| your daughter have left the Russian territory?”~“About the same
85 II, XIII| preparations were completed in the Russian provinces for sending into
86 II, XIII| over by the time that the Russian troops should come in sight
87 II, XIV | space between the banks. The Russian officers reported this change
88 II, XV | relieved.~With the first Russian soldiers, two of Michael’
89 II, XV | as all which attack the Russian Colossus must be, was very
90 II, XV | days after the entry of the Russian troops.~Michael Strogoff
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