Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches)
Title: Russia;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ef period of prosperity passed with the foundation of Petersburg. There remain still, however, an English consulate and church, and a considerable colony, employed chiefly in great saw-mills in the neighbourhood, where the men employ an Anglo-Russian jargon. Tlie town stretches for four miles along the right bank of the Dvina, over thirty miles from its mouth. The harbour is free from ice from the first days of May to the first days of October. Owing to the (Tulf Stream the ice here melts sooner than in the more southerly Onega Gulf. So, too, when there is a northerly breeze sea-bathing is appreciably warmer than when the wind is from the south. From May to October the port is full of ships engaged in corn and timber traffic, for the Dvina, which is connected by a portage witli the Petchora, is a commercial outlet for an enormous tract of country. The level of education in the town is high, but the place itself is dull. It has a museum, a cathedral, and an unworthy statue of the great
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THE NORTH 315 writer and scientist Lomonossoff, who was born in1711, in a fisiiermans cottage near Kholmogory,and who set out on his first momentous visit toJNIoscow on foot with three borrowed roubles anda load of fish. There are no other towns of any size in NorthernRussia, but at a distance of fourteen hours sailingfrom Archangel is the famous and enormouslywealthy Solovetski monastery. It is situated on afairly large wooded island in the Gulf of Onega,dotted with natural and artificial lakes. One ofthe latter lies under the high turreted wall to theeast, while the western wall is washed by the sea.The place is full of the cries of sea-birds and thesound of waves. Every summer fifteen thousandpilgrims visit it, and often as many as a thousandare fed together in the refectory. Founded in1429, the monastery was greatly enlarged duringthe years of commercial activity in the north. Ithas twice been bombarded, once successfully bythe English fleet during the Crimean campaign.The other o

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