Excerpt from Travels in Russia; Tartary and TurkeyOne evening; being at his theatre in the Hermitage; a French piece was performed; in which the story of the English powder-plot was introduced. The emperor was observed to listen to it with more than usual at tention; and as soon as it was concluded; he ordered all the vaults beneath the palace to be searched.Coming down the street called the Perspective; he perceived a nobleman who was taking his walk; and had stopped to look at some workmen who were planting trees by the emperor's order. What are you doing 2 said he. Merely seeing the men work; replied the nobleman. Oh is that your employment? Take off his pelisse; and give him a spade! There; now work yourself!When enraged; he lost all command of himself; which sometimes gave rise to very ludicrous scenes. The courtiers knew very well when the storm was coming on; by a trick which he had in those moments of blowing from his under lip against the end of his nose. In one of his furious passions; flourishing his cane about; he struck by accident the branch of a large glass lustre; and broke it. As soon as he perceived what had hap pened; he attacked the lustre in good earnest; and did not give up his work until he had entirely demolished it.In the rare intervals of better temper; his good humour was betrayed by an uncouth way of swinging his legs and feet about in walking. Upon those occa sions; he was sure to talk with indecency and folly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work; preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases; an imperfection in the original; such as a blemish or missing page; may be replicated in our edition. We do; however; repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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