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A JOURNAL OF

TRAVELS TO AND FROM THAT CAPITAL;

THROUGH FLANDERS,

THE RHENISH PROVINCES, PRUSSIA, RUSSIA,

POLAND, SILESIA, SAXONY,

THE FEDERATED STATES OF GERMANY, AND FRANCE.

BY A. B. GRANVILLE, M. D.

F.R.S.; F.L.S.; M.R.I.; F.G.S.; &. M.R.A.S.

Physician in Ordinary to H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence; Physician Accoucheur to the Westmin-
ster General Dispensary, and to the Benevolent Lying-in Institution; Principal Physician to the
Royal Metropolitan Infirmary for Sick Children; Hon. Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine
of Madrid; orresp. Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh, and Hon.
Member of the Imperial Medico-Chirurgical Academy of the same town; Foreign Associate of
the Royal Academy of Sciences at Naples; Member of the Physico-Mathematical Class of the Royal
Academy of Sciences of Turin; of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres of Brus-
sels; Corresp. Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Berlin; and Ordinary Member of
the Natural History Society of Halle; Corresp. Member of the Prussian Physical Society of Bonn;
of the Philomathic and Philotechnic Societies, and the Societé Medicale d'Emulation of Paris; of
the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; of the Georgofili of Florence; of the
Medical and Scientific Societies of Marseilles, Florence, Pistoja, Val d'Arno, Padua, Venice, &c. ;
and Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION

CAREFULLY REVISED, AND WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

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Buildings and Institutions connected with the Administration of Govern-

ment. The Senate House.-Code in the handwriting of Catherine II.—The

Admiralty.-Buildings, plan, and internal arrangement.-Its Cabinets of Na-

tural History and National Curiosities.-The Model Rooms.-General Bentham

and the Carriage-ship.-Launch of the Alexander, of 110 guns, and two other

ships of the line. Their conveyance to Cronstadt.- Russian Navy.-The

Etat-Major.-Departments of Geography, Hydrography, and Land-Surveying.

-The Lithographic Department.-Depôt of Maps, and sale of them.-Great

Map of the Russian Empire.-Secret Geographical Cabinet.—Travelling Maps

of Alexander.-Autograph Schemes of Alexander, for Reviews and Sham-

Fights.-Topography of the different Governments.-Manufactories of Mathe-

matical Instruments.-The Printing-press Department.-The Chancellerie.—

The Library.-Autograph Letters of Peter the Great.-The War-game.-The

Incombustible Hall.-Military Archives from the time of Peter the Great.-

Domestic Establishment of the People resident in the Palace of the Etat-Major.

- General Observations.-The Chateau St. Michel.-The Corps du Genie.—

The Arsenals.-The Foundery.-The Colleges.-The Post-Office. The pre-

sent System.-Distribution of Letters.-Private Post-office for corresponding

with the Emperor.-Revenue of the Post-Office.-The Citadel.-The Mint.-

General Enumeration of other Public Buildings connected with the Ad-

ministration of the Civil and Military Government at St. Petersburgh.

Preliminary Notice. The University of St. Petersburgh.

Education.--General and Elementary System of Education.-Schools for the

People. Encouragement for the Cultivation of the Russian Language.-The

Imperial Russian Academy of Literature.-New Plan of Elementary Educa-

tion. Professor Greitsch's Lectures on the Russian Language.-Pedagogic

Schools. Sentiment of the reigning Emperor respecting Education. — His

means of promoting it.-Enumeration of Public Places of Education existing

in St. Petersburgh. - Oriental Institute.-The Land Cadet Corps, and the

Marine Cadet Corps.-Naval Academy, and other Establishments.-Domestic

or Private Education. - General Benkendorff.-Imperial Message. - Doctor

Ruhl.-Recognition. The Communauté des Demoiselles Nobles.-The In-

stitute of St. Catherine.-System of Female Education for the higher Classes

of Society.-Imperial Public Library.-Kriloff, the Fabulist. - Manuscript

Letters of Sovereigns. Specimen of Louis XIV.'s early Notions of Royal

Authority. The Press. - Encouragement to Authors. Modern Russian

Literature.-Death of Karamsin, the Historian.-Russian Poetry.-Alexander

Pouschkine, the Russian Byron.-Fabulists, Soumarokoff, Khemnitzer, Dmi-

trieff, Ismailoff, and B. Pouschkine.-The Romantic School. — Baratinsky.

-Joukovosky.-Mademoiselle Zenaïde Volkonsky.-Dramatic Literature. —

Prince Chakhovsky.-Number of Books published in Russia since the Intro-

duction of the Art of Printing.-Periodical Literature.-List of Periodical

Publications at St. Petersburgh and Moscow.
Page 212-245.

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