As is known, the podorojna, drawn up in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff, authorized this merchant to be accompanied on his journey to Siberia.
They appeared, therefore, to be a brother and sister traveling under the protection of the imperial police.

Both, seated together at the stern, gazed at the receding town, so disturbed by the governor's order.
Michael had as yet said nothing to the girl, he had not even questioned her.

He waited until she should speak to him, when that was necessary.
She had been anxious to leave that town, in which, but for the providential intervention of this unexpected protector, she would have remained imprisoned.

She said nothing, but her looks spoke her thanks.
The Volga, the Rha of the ancients, the largest river in all Europe, is almost three thousand miles in length.

Its waters, rather unwholesome in its upper part, are improved at Nijni-Novgorod by those of the Oka, a rapid affluent, issuing from the central provinces of Russia.