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Several contemporary (or thereabouts) illustrations of what Anne and Ann visited in St. Petersburg on 24 September 1839 (clockwise from top left):
Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral
Transfiguration Cathedral
Tauride Palace
Peter the Great's log cabin
(see the blog for details!)
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@SearchingForAnn Traversing the glacier was very popular with 19th-century travellers. Here are two late-19th-century postcards depicting parties of tourists on it. Note the numerous crevasses! Not for the faint-hearted, was it?
Source: https://t.co/FmjmQc7Usi
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Our heroines go to church in Paris.
Ann: [provides a detailed account of the sermon, which she had clearly listened to with rapt attention, great interest, and thought]
Anne: “1/2 asleep all the while”
Perfect illustration:
https://t.co/XNiDD92UKk https://t.co/J4Z0SG5eS0
@JoanMBurda I'm still baffled as to what this other one is and who made it:
(From Marlene's Archive link: "It is believed that this portrait (or the portrait at SH:2/M/19/1/1) is the portrait Anne Lister mentions in her diary 19-21 Nov 1822.")
This is SH:2/M/19/1/1: