. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across bt»Nv f^^vvi* ^p. LEARNING TO MEATE. extent, for rich people to educate their children at home. Every noble-man who could afford it had a tutor for his boys and a governess for hisgirls. There is no country where tutors and governesses were more cer- TUTORS AND GOVERNESSES. 153 tain of eiiiployinent than in Russia, and I have the assurances from them,a hundred times repeated, that thej were better treated here than any-where else. A tutor o


. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across bt»Nv f^^vvi* ^p. LEARNING TO MEATE. extent, for rich people to educate their children at home. Every noble-man who could afford it had a tutor for his boys and a governess for hisgirls. There is no country where tutors and governesses were more cer- TUTORS AND GOVERNESSES. 153 tain of eiiiployinent than in Russia, and I have the assurances from them,a hundred times repeated, that thej were better treated here than any-where else. A tutor or governess is ahnost invariably made a member ofthe family, sits with them at table, is presented to visitors, forms a part oftheir social circle, and is made to feel thoroughly at home. Governessesare usually Englishor French, while tu-tors are generallyFrench or education ofthese home taughtchildren beg-ins at a


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