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shown much hospitality in the shape of vodka and dried
reindeer-meat, vodka and jukkala (dried fish), vodka
and boiled fish, vodka and stroganina (frozen fish), and
vodka and ikra (caviar). The walls of the
reception-hall in the palace are covered with costly and shining
ikons, and in the peredny ugol (the right corner) a lamp is
constantly burning in front of the image of St. Nicolas.
The king now and then reverently bows and crosses
himself before one or the other of these many saints. He
evidently stands on good terms with all of them and with
niebesni Tsar, the Heavenly Tsar, who, he himself humbly
and gratefully acknowledges, has bestowed great blessings
upon him. “I have not even learnt how to sign my own
name,” the king proudly remarks, taking me to his
storehouse to show me his treasures, “but look here, and see
if the good God has not blessed my undertakings!” and
he points with pride to an immense heap of
mammoth-tusks, worth many thousand roubles, and a large pile of
skins of white foxes, blue foxes, and even black foxes,
worth goodness knows how much more. Yes, the “Heavenly
Tsar” has indeed blessed his favorite, so that he is said to
be worth some £50,000 or so. But judging from all
appearances and from the testimony of those who ought
to know, the king is also on the best of terms both with
the representative of the earthly Tsar in St. Petersburg—
the local civil officer, and the representative of the Heavenly
Tsar—the priest, who do not hinder him from adding to
his treasures, even if the ways and means of doing so
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