Travels in Russia, the Krimea, the Caucasus, and Georgia Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...them, paid the money, and sent the vehicle to them, as if it had been his own; and generally did not permit them to be at any expence in his country." Colonel Johnson had desired an equipage to be bought for him at 2,000 roubles. The same evening Count Platof made him and his party a visit, and drank tea with them. "In the conversation," In a note are enumerated the visitors who had been at Count Platof's, and as it gives an idea of the taste in a military country of bestowing military titles, I shall copy it. It runs thus, "Major Chatterton, Colonel Beaumont, Captains Strachey, Porter, Salter, and Colonel and Chevalier Johnson." As a man is nothing without some apparent rank, he must assume a title, or if he do not, the natives will give him one according to their ideas of his station in life; of this they judge by his appearance, his equipage, his servants, &c. TO BRITISH TRAVELLERS. 263 i says the Colonel, "I accidentally mentioned that his secretary had had the kindness to assist us in looking out for a carriage; and had met with an excellent one, nearly new, which we had requested him to purchase for us. I had imagined that the Count would be pleased on hearing that this good office had been performed towards us: but, on the contrary, he declared, that the carriage in which he had come should be given to us, and begged our acceptance of it for his sake, hoping that we would keep it in remembrance of him. I endeavoured to decline accepting this present in every possible way. Mr. Grassman, who interpreted for us with the Count respecting our intended purchase, mentioned to him the person to whom the carriage belonged; but the Count, addressing him in the Russian language, enjoined him, as he valued his friendship, not to...