MOSCOW. 
England. Books, maps, prints, furniture, 
clothing, hardware of all kinds, horses, carriages, 
hats, leather, medicine, almost every article of 
convenience, comfort, or luxury, must be de- 
rived from England, or it is considered as of no 
value. Some of the nobles are much richer 
than the richest of our English peers; and a 
vast number, as may be supposed, are very 
poor. To this poverty, and to those richer, 
are joined characteristics in which the Russian 
peasant and the Russian prince are the same : 
they are all equally barbarous. Visit a Rus- 
sian, of whatsoeyer rank, at his country-seat 
and you will find him lounging about, with his 
collar open, uncombed, unwashed, unshaven, 
half-naked, eating raw turnips, or drinking 
quass. The raw turnip is handed about in 
slices, in the first houses, upon a silver salver, 
with brandy, as a whet before dinner. Their 
hair is universally in a state not to be described ; 
and their bodies are only divested of vermin 
when they frequent the bath. Upon these 
occasions, their shirts and pelisses are held 
over a hot stove, and the heat occasions the 
vermin to fall off 1 . It is a fact too notorious to 
admit of dispute, that from the Emperor to the 
(l) Suvorqf used to cleanse his shirt in this manner, during a cmn- 
pnign ; stripping before the common soldiers, at the fires kindled in 
their camps. 
