Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great, Vol. 2 of 2
The footman at once fprang from his horfe to {trike the fellow for the infult for the word was a contumelious one that they addrefs to the Ger mans. But the Rufiian ran away, and called up the Guard, (aying that the German was on the point of murdering him, and that he was a robber. The foldiers roufed by this Frory ran up, arrefied the footman, and brought him as a robber to the Pricafia; where, his innocence being manifef'c, he was, on payment of one grifi'na, allowed to return home.
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