A Winter in Russia

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Excerpt from A Winter in Russia: From the French of Théophile GautierWe pass Hanover and Minden the train keeps on its way, and morning dawns.On either side stretched a peat-moss, upon which the mist was producing a singular mirage. We seemed to be upon a causeway traversing an immense lake whose waves crept up gently, dying in transparent folds along the edge of the embankment. Here and there a group of trees or a cottage, emerging like an island, completed the illusion, for such it was. A sheet of bluish mist, ¿oating a little above the ground and curling up all along its upper surface under the rays of the sun, caused this aqueous phantasmagoria, resembling the Fata Mor gana of Sicily. In vain did my geographical knowl edge protest, disconcerted, against this inland sea, which no map of Prussia indicates, my eyes would not give it up, and later in the day, when the sun, rising higher, had dried up this imaginary lake, they required the presence of a boat to make them admit that any body of water could be real.Suddenly, upon the left were massed the trees of a great park, Tritons and Nereids appeared, dabbling in the basin of a fountain there was a dome and a circle of columns rising above extensive buildings, and this was Potsdam.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.