If he had been content in 1812 to spend the winter in Smolensk, instead of hurrying on to Moscow, the enterprise might not have been disastrous; but after his retreat from Russia, with the loss of the finest army that Europe ever saw, he was doomed.

Also Remarks on Struve's account of a Local deviation in the direction of Gravity, near Moscow.

The brave Circassians, triumphant through a war of ten years, would send down 80,000 of their unconquerable horsemen to the plains of Moscow.

That would have given us arms, and having beaten Austria already, we would have beaten Russia, and I, instead of having now the honour of addressing you here, would perhaps have dictated a peace in Moscow.

After finishing his course at the gymnasium and spending three years at the University of Moscow, he entered the civil service in 1843 as an employee of the Court of Conscience in Moscow, from which he transferred two years later to the Court of Commerce, where he continued until he was discharged from the service in 1851.

His literary career began in the year 1847, when he read to a group of Moscow men of letters his first experiments in dramatic composition.

Unfortunately, by its mordant but true picture of commercial morals, it aroused against him the most bitter feelings among the Moscow merchants.

Not one lovable character appears in that gloomy picture of merchant life in Moscow; even the old mother repels us by her stupidity more than she attracts us by her kindliness.

In 1885 he received the important post of artistic director of the Moscow government theatres; the harassing duties of the position proved too severe for his weak constitution, and he passed away in the next year.

Afterwards we lived a whole winter in Moscow.

Her father was set free by the late master; he was employed in a confectioner's in Moscow.

Perhaps Gordéy Kárpych wishes to marry Lyubóv Gordéyevna in Moscow.

Moscow's got it in his head That Kolomna he will wed. Tula laughs with all his heart.

Well, then I went to Moscow to get money on the drafts.

I walked about Moscow, I saw everything, everything!I've been through a long course of study!

And so I want to move from this place to Moscow.

You'll live in Moscow like a lady; you'll ride in a coach.

And in Moscow there are lots of nice things in the shops; there are things worth giving!

This butler is a trained man, from Moscow; he knows all the ways of societywhere each man should be seated, and what's to be done.

Oh, if I could live in Moscow, or in Petersburg, I'd make a point of following every fashion.

"I," says he, "shall go to Moscow; here they don't understand me!"

Such fools are almost extinct in Moscow!

I'll get musicians from Moscow!

MOSCOW ART THEATRE SERIES OF RUSSIAN PLAYS; English translation by Jennie Covan.

(The Russian Moscow Art Theatre series of Russian plays, v. 4) © 1Dec22, A697384.