It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 423 ● ISBN 9781515456353 ● 文件大小 3.3 MB ● 出版者 Wilder Publications, Inc. ● 发布时间 2022 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9111177 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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