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Petersburg and Warsaw; Scenes witnessed during a residence in Poland and Russia from 1863-1864

Petersburg and Warsaw; Scenes witnessed during a residence in Poland and Russia from 1863-1864

Augustin P. O'Brien
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This volume was published in 1864.

This is an easy read for those who love to read about mid-19th century Eastern Europe and Russia from the viewpoint of an outsider. The author shares touching stories about the royals as well as the peasants and, as you can see below, he covers a variety of subjects.



Chapter 1 - The English Government and the Poles
Chapter 2 - Prince Wittgenstein's Letter
Chapter 3 - Wilna
Chapter 4 - General Mouravieff
Chapter 5 - Prison Hospitals
Chapter 6 - Wounded Insurgents
Chapter 7 - Political Prisoners
Chapter 8 - Political Assassins
Chapter 9 - Courts-Martial
Chapter 10 - Peasant-Duputations
Chapter 11 - Werkey
Chapter 12 - The House of Radzovill
Chapter 13 - The Bisons
Chapter 14 - Memories of 1812
Chapter 15 - Bad Omens
Chapter 16 - Napoleon's Writing Table
Chapter 17 - Flight from Wilna
Chapter 18 - Repentant Insurgents
Chapter 19 - State of Lithuania
Chapter 20 - Warsaw
Chapter 21 - The Consul General
Chapter 22 - Count DeBerg
Chapter 23 - The Spirit of the Press
Chapter 24 - The Grand Duke Constantine
Chapter 25 - The Grand Duchess
Chapter 26 - Assassination and the Catholic Church
Chapter 27 - The Soiree at the Viceregal Court
Chapter 28 - The Citadel of Warsaw
Chapter 29 - The Prison Diet
Chapter 30 - Female Prisoners
Chapter 31 - The Male Prisoners
Chapter 32 - Torture of Political Prisoners
Chapter 33 - Attempt to Murder Count DeBerg
Chapter 34 - The Panic
Chapter 35 - The Monasteries
Chapter 36 - The Catholic Priesthood and the Poignard
Chapter 37 - General Trepoff
Chapter 38 - A Mother's Prayers
Chapter 39 - The Carbonari
Chapter 40 - Sentenced to Death
Chapter 41 - Torture at Warsaw
Chapter 42 - Manifesto of the National Government
Chapter 43 - Pack the Press
Chapter 44 - Foreigh Journals
Chapter 45 - Poland and Italy
Chapter 46 - Actual State of Poland

A few excerpts from the
- " You will be surprised when I tell you," the Grand Duchess said, "that I leave this place with the greatest regret. It is a general idea that we are only attached to places where we have been happy, but yet this palace is dear to me, though it is here that I have first known real sorrow. It was here, in this room,
that I received my wounded husband the night the attempt was made upon his life. He had changed his dress and mastered the pain of his wound, and also his weakness from loss of blood, so that I might not be alarmed; for the doctor thought that in my then state of health any violent shock might have a fatal effect."

- When the secret of the Polish revolution was discovered, when numbers of the anti-Russian Poles perceived that they had been deceived, that they had unwittingly sold themselves to a secret society, which as Kossuth expressed it, saura se faire obeir, they would most willingly have retired from the trap into which they had fallen, but the issue was barred with poignards. The exactions of the soi-disant National Government were exorbitant. There is scarcely a landed proprietor in the country
whose revenue has not become embarrassed by the sums he has been obliged to pay to the revolutionists. I have seen nobles and
large landed proprietors living in hourly terror of assassination, barricaded in their own houses, dreading the entrance of the " hanging gendarmerie," to whose presence in the country they might have been themselves instrumental, but who now kept the
Language
English
Pages
108
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
May 04, 2009

Petersburg and Warsaw; Scenes witnessed during a residence in Poland and Russia from 1863-1864

Augustin P. O'Brien
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This volume was published in 1864.

This is an easy read for those who love to read about mid-19th century Eastern Europe and Russia from the viewpoint of an outsider. The author shares touching stories about the royals as well as the peasants and, as you can see below, he covers a variety of subjects.



Chapter 1 - The English Government and the Poles
Chapter 2 - Prince Wittgenstein's Letter
Chapter 3 - Wilna
Chapter 4 - General Mouravieff
Chapter 5 - Prison Hospitals
Chapter 6 - Wounded Insurgents
Chapter 7 - Political Prisoners
Chapter 8 - Political Assassins
Chapter 9 - Courts-Martial
Chapter 10 - Peasant-Duputations
Chapter 11 - Werkey
Chapter 12 - The House of Radzovill
Chapter 13 - The Bisons
Chapter 14 - Memories of 1812
Chapter 15 - Bad Omens
Chapter 16 - Napoleon's Writing Table
Chapter 17 - Flight from Wilna
Chapter 18 - Repentant Insurgents
Chapter 19 - State of Lithuania
Chapter 20 - Warsaw
Chapter 21 - The Consul General
Chapter 22 - Count DeBerg
Chapter 23 - The Spirit of the Press
Chapter 24 - The Grand Duke Constantine
Chapter 25 - The Grand Duchess
Chapter 26 - Assassination and the Catholic Church
Chapter 27 - The Soiree at the Viceregal Court
Chapter 28 - The Citadel of Warsaw
Chapter 29 - The Prison Diet
Chapter 30 - Female Prisoners
Chapter 31 - The Male Prisoners
Chapter 32 - Torture of Political Prisoners
Chapter 33 - Attempt to Murder Count DeBerg
Chapter 34 - The Panic
Chapter 35 - The Monasteries
Chapter 36 - The Catholic Priesthood and the Poignard
Chapter 37 - General Trepoff
Chapter 38 - A Mother's Prayers
Chapter 39 - The Carbonari
Chapter 40 - Sentenced to Death
Chapter 41 - Torture at Warsaw
Chapter 42 - Manifesto of the National Government
Chapter 43 - Pack the Press
Chapter 44 - Foreigh Journals
Chapter 45 - Poland and Italy
Chapter 46 - Actual State of Poland

A few excerpts from the
- " You will be surprised when I tell you," the Grand Duchess said, "that I leave this place with the greatest regret. It is a general idea that we are only attached to places where we have been happy, but yet this palace is dear to me, though it is here that I have first known real sorrow. It was here, in this room,
that I received my wounded husband the night the attempt was made upon his life. He had changed his dress and mastered the pain of his wound, and also his weakness from loss of blood, so that I might not be alarmed; for the doctor thought that in my then state of health any violent shock might have a fatal effect."

- When the secret of the Polish revolution was discovered, when numbers of the anti-Russian Poles perceived that they had been deceived, that they had unwittingly sold themselves to a secret society, which as Kossuth expressed it, saura se faire obeir, they would most willingly have retired from the trap into which they had fallen, but the issue was barred with poignards. The exactions of the soi-disant National Government were exorbitant. There is scarcely a landed proprietor in the country
whose revenue has not become embarrassed by the sums he has been obliged to pay to the revolutionists. I have seen nobles and
large landed proprietors living in hourly terror of assassination, barricaded in their own houses, dreading the entrance of the " hanging gendarmerie," to whose presence in the country they might have been themselves instrumental, but who now kept the
Language
English
Pages
108
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
May 04, 2009

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