MOSCOW. 
meanest slave, throughout the vast empire of 
all the Russias, including all its princes, nobles, 
priests, and peasants, there exists not a single 
individual in a thousand whose body is not thus 
infested. The true manners of the people are 
not seen in Petersburg, nor even in Moscow, by 
entering only the houses of the nobility. Some 
of this class, and generally persons to whom 
letters of recommendation are obtained, have 
travelled, and introduced refinements which 
their friends and companions readily imitate. 
But the genuine Russian rises at an early hour, 
and breakfasts on a dram with black bread. 
His dinner, at noon, consists of the coarsest and 
most greasy food, the scorbutic effects of which 
are supposed to be counteracted by pickled 
cucumbers, by sour cabbage, by the juice of 
his vaccinium, and by his nectar quass. Sleep, 
rendering him unmindful of his abject servitude 
and of his barbarous life, he particularly in- 
dulges; sleeping always after eating, and going 
early to his bed. The principal articles of diet are 
the same everywhere — grease and brandy. The 
horrors of a Russian kitchen are inconceivable ; 
and there is scarcely a bed in the whole empire 
that an English traveller would venture to 
approach, if he were aware of its condition. 
Among the nobles, the race is not yet extinct 
