Russian bride presenting a whip to her husband 22, cossack with lance riding at gallop 23, and the razing of Moscow by the Russians in 1812 to defeat Napoleon 24. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor’s Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1819.

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