GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS 
TO PART THE FIRST, 
VOLUME THE FIRST. 
Advertisements to the Fourth, Third, and Second Editions. 
Preface to the First Edition. 
Tables of Russian Measure, Weight, and Money. 
List of Embellishments, Maps, and Fignetles. 
CHAP. I. 
P. i. 
PETERSBURG. 
Preliminary Observations — State of public affairs — Strange 
conduct of the Emperor — Insolence of the police — Extraordi- 
nary phenomenon. 
CHAP. H. 
P. 14. t 
JOURNEY FROM PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW. 
Departure from Petersburg — Manner of travelling — Palace of 
Tsarskoselo — Gardens — Anecdote of Billings’s expedition to 
the North-west Coast of America — Ledyard — Barbarous 
decoration of the apartments — Arrival at Novogorod — 
Cathedral — Antient Greek paintings — Manner of imitating 
them in Russia — Superstitions of the Greek Church — Virgin 
with three hands — Story of her origin — Russian Bogh. 
