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8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. [x] + 185 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has slightly sunned spine; otherwise a very good copy. Printed ownership label on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white prints. The Marchioness of Londonderry, formerly a Co. Durham Coalfield heiress, toured Russia in 1836-37 with her husband, the Marquess, even though he had recently declined the post of Ambassador to St Petersburg. In her diary she recorded their friendship with the Tsar and Tsarina, the splendours of Imperial Russia, outdoor amusements in the Russian winter, descriptions of St Petersburg and Moscow and their frequent encounters with vermin. Edited by W. A. L. Seaman, former Durham County Archivist and J. R. Sewell, assistant keeper of Records to the Corporation of London. First edition published by John Murray, 1973.