. 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 e buildings surrounding it the trio of strangerswalked to the bank of the river and watched the boats on the water,where the setting sun slanted in long rays and filled the air with themellow light peculiar to high latitudes near the close of day. It wasearly in September, and already the evening air had a touch of coolnessabout it. St. Petersburg is in latitude 60° North, and consequently is quitenear the Arctic Circle. Doctor Bronson told
. 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 e buildings surrounding it the trio of strangerswalked to the bank of the river and watched the boats on the water,where the setting sun slanted in long rays and filled the air with themellow light peculiar to high latitudes near the close of day. It wasearly in September, and already the evening air had a touch of coolnessabout it. St. Petersburg is in latitude 60° North, and consequently is quitenear the Arctic Circle. Doctor Bronson told the youths that if they hadcome there in July they would have found very little night, the sun set- DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE CAPITAL. 85 ting not far from ten oclock and rising about two. In the four hoursof night there is ahiiost continuous twilight; and by mounting to thetop of a high building at midnight one can see the position of the sunbelow the northern horizon. Any one who goes to bed after sunsetand rises before sunrise would have very little sleep in St. Petersburgin summer. On the other hand, said the Doctor, the nights of winter are very. PETER THE GREAT. long. Winter is the gay season here, as the city is deserted by fashionablepeople in summer, and one is not expected to make visits. The Imperialcourt goes away; the Emperor has a palace at Yalta in the Crimea, andthere he passes the autumn months, unless kept in St. Petersburg orMoscow by the affairs of the nation. They have some public festivities 86 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. here in summer, but not generally, most of the matters of this kind beingreserved for the wintei\ Boats were moving in all directions on the placid waters of the river,darting beneath the magnificent bridge that stretches across the stream,and carrying little parties, who sought recreation or weie on errands ofbusiness. On the opposite side of the Xeva, and beyond the WinterPalace, was the grim fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul
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