. George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. olhynia. None of the estateshave very old houses, as the country was continuallyswept and burnt by the Tartars. This place was estab-lished in 1803. The house has been continually addedto, the last and principal addition being only twoyears ago. It is something like a French chateau withlittle pretensions to architecture exteriorly. You entera great hall two stories high; wings run off from thislike the two sides of a triangle. The decorations areFrench style, Louis Quinze, etc. Everything verycomfortable, with modern improvements in t
. George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. olhynia. None of the estateshave very old houses, as the country was continuallyswept and burnt by the Tartars. This place was estab-lished in 1803. The house has been continually addedto, the last and principal addition being only twoyears ago. It is something like a French chateau withlittle pretensions to architecture exteriorly. You entera great hall two stories high; wings run off from thislike the two sides of a triangle. The decorations areFrench style, Louis Quinze, etc. Everything verycomfortable, with modern improvements in the way ofplumbing, also every other luxury in the way of ex-cellent chef and fine wine, stable of sixty horses, twopacks of hounds, pheasant shooting in the autumn, andriding to hounds across country. The peasants have not the sad and sullen lookswhich one sees now in Russia and were very respectful,always taking off their hats, and when the Countstopped to speak to them, kissing the sleeve of his has a great estate with five beet-sugar factories.
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