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Influence of the civilization of Poland on Russia
victims of their rancour and Catherine II enriched
her favourites with their confiscated estates.
It is strange to find in the annals of nations,
that a nation, at whose Monarch's Court
in Moscow, about a century previous to the
first partition of Poland (1772) the has common
luxury of the commonest utensil like the
fork was not known, and a its polite
Courtiers ate and Boiars at the wedding festival of their
august Czar Demetrius as a Polish historian and witness says, ate meat with fingers;
and who (nation) at the partition of
Poland as Mr. Bowring informs us had her first poet Lomonossow –
should now have since so rapidly grow grown were
as to dictate laws to Europe the most enlightened
nations of whole Europe. It is the contact
with the Poles that made this nation so
powerful; physically and morally. Certainly The Russians
travelled with Suwarrow to see the classic
ground of Italy – with their Emporer
to see the luxurious capital of the Gauls,
but still their chief and real civilization the proceeds only from
the contact with the Poles more so than the
above mentioned occasional and but artificial
improvement. The country who gave birth to
Pitchio to Nicolaus Copernicus, to Casimir Sarbiewski
who were mar are the pride not of the nation but of humanity at large –
a country tha whose as and historians wrote a Livian like Latin
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