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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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They did not hesitate to demand 20 roubles as hire for a
distance which, according to the official tax, would cost a
fifth of that sum, and when I showed them my
recommendation from the Minister of the Interior, according to which
they were in duty bound to provide horses at the regular
price, they replied with a shrug, and told me that all the
post-horses were out, and that they were free men,
independent of all orders from St. Petersburg.

Although we had a man with us to watch our things,
and also, when we had to stop anywhere for the night,
hired someone to act as guard, yet the spare wooden shafts
for our carts, various ropes and clothes, etc. were stolen.
At the time of our journey two travellers had been robbed
and murdered close to one of the settlements. In a small
village where there seemed to be a great many
questionable characters, we had to spend the night waiting for
horses, and Mr. Frænkel and myself slept in the tarantass.
About two o’clock in the morning I awoke, as the
tarantass started at a tremendous pace away from the
village. Not finding our third companion, Mr. Nilson, in
the coach, I cried out to the driver to stop, but he
merely increased his speed still more, and only when
Mr. Frænkel put a revolver to his head did he pull up and
return to the posting-station, where Mr. Nilson was soundly
sleeping. Our “guide” was also pretending to sleep,
although there were reasons for believing that he was not
ignorant of the scheme of driving our coach out of the
village into the forest, while we were sleeping, in order to

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