Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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waa the resort of moat of the IngliBh and .ilnerieans in the p1ace,- that
and .. houIIe kept by
Wi..
Beneon. I aaw .. good deal of St. Peteraburgh.
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he ahip .ae eonsigned to Stieglits A Co., the grsat bankera of the
place. Baron Stieglitz took, apparently, a great fancy to me, probably
beeause I lIaa 10 little, and put one of hil elerkl at
m;y
diapol1tion,
to aho" me all there
.
aa
to allil.
He
&
bowed me all the aights, ao ealled, of St. Peteraburgh,
and more blllide. 1'e .1eited the great St. lllaaca Chu:rch, then beill8
built, but no. finhbed, and conlic..red one of the tin..t in Europe.
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I beli .... e cO!lnoi..eurl con.ider it rather ornate to be
,
talte.
Then
there lIal the Cathedral of Xe.lan which, I beliM'e, holde
the highett rank
in
Ru.1s1an eetimation. It containl a picture laid to
have been painted by St. Luke, ao blatlk with age that but little de_
lign can be slen - I lbould
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none.
The
Convent; of St. Jlexander
llellU:1 ( I am not lure that it lIae not a monaltery) bae very gorgeoul
&
brinel, and uruch that il interllltiDi. We were able to lee the Winter
Pel.ce and the Hermitage, which contains one
ot
the tinBlt geUeriee
in
all Europe. All these placel have been deaeribed so often that
it
would be uIBleee for me to
add
another to the lilt. One of the moat
interesting -eighte- i. on the ieland in the Hev., on .hich i.
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ot
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