Description: "SIRE, a fresh despatch." "Whence?" "From Tomsk." "Is the wire cut beyond that city?" «Yes, sire, since yesterday." "Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and let me be kept au courant of all that occurs." "Sire, it shall be done," answered General Kissoff. These words were exchanged about two hours after midnight, at the moment when the fête given at the New Palace was at the height of its splendour. During the whole evening the bands of the Préobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments had played without Cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among the choicest of their repertories. Innumerable couples of dancers whirled through the magnificent saloons of the palace, which stood at a few paces only from the "Old house of stones"_in former days the scene of so many terrible dramas, and the echoes of whose walls were this night awakened by the gay strains of the musicians...(from first page)
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Topic: Literature
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Unit Quantity: 341 pages
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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