Excerpt from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century At the age of twenty she was married (february, and soon afterwards she set out for St. Peters iburg, where she was recognised as the ornament of the higher society. In the midst of her numerous engage ments, in the midst of the homage rendered to her wit and grace, she found time to collect a mass of 'valuable notes on the condition and inner life of the great Russian Empire, several provinces of which she knew from personal observation. From St. Petersburg to Moscow, from Odessa to Revel, her untiring activity carried her. Most social questions are at work under an apparent calm, and offer, therefore, subjects well worthy of careful study, especially to so grave and clear an intellect as that of Princess Dora d'istria, who pos sessed, in the highest degree, the faculty of steady meditation amidst the movement and the world-stir 'that surrounded her. The world, charmed by her per sonal attractions, had no suspicion of the restlessness and activity of her inquiring mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.