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Title: Honeymooning in Russia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hLoubet on the Avenue de lOpera half a minute before abomb splintered his carriage; a Shah at his prayers;Queen Wilhelmina receiving at The Hague; the King ofNorway leaving a Danish castle when still a modestPrince of Denmark — I thank Fortune for having hadthe opportunity to see these personages, for their namesmean history, and the sight of them a more vital interestin that history. Despite our sight-seeing ardour, however, the WinterPalace and the Hermitage presented an array of objectsof art and historical interest quite discouraging. Whenwe had paid off our curious cabby at the great door onthe Neva side of the palace, an impressive lackey ad-mitted us, together with the guide already engaged andwaiting. We went up a marble stairway to the apartments andgalleries of the most spacious palace in Europe, if notthe most splendid. I suppose Philip is as fond of art asmost Americans of his sex, but I am sure he found thehistorical paintings of less interest than the display of iJXHIk
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< A Palace of Treasure and Tragedy 41 gold and enamel plates which hung rim to rim about manyof the enormous rooms. Our guide, who was of indeter-minate nationality, spoke English with so puzzling an ac-cent and insistent a volubility that we wished it had beenpossible to wander through the Imperial Residence withno conductor but our silent red Baedeker. We didlearn from him, however, that the wall-plates were giftsto the Royal Family upon wedding or birth or feast days. They look jolly like jewelled soup-plates to me, saiddisrespectful Philip. How should you like a dozen ofthose in your china cabinet, Jena? Jena, pronouncedwith a y, is Russian for wife, and I was Jena Gouggton to my husband throughout our Russian tour. A marvellous table presented to a former emperor byan Italian king showed a spring-time picture done in fin-est mosaic. It was inconceivable that mere hands andfingers could have sorted and placed such infinitesimalbits of coloured stone. Not in Italy itself had we

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