To me [in my privately austere judgment] he seemed so KLEINGEISTISCH, so small-minded a person, that I"-- in fact, knew not what to think of it.

[Busching, _Beitrage,_ vi.

464.] HORDT SEES THE DECEASED CZARINA LYING IN STATE.

"One day, after dining at Court, General Korf proposed that we should go and see the LIT DE PARADE" (Parade-bed) of the late Czarina, which is in another Palace, not far off.

"Count Schuwalof [NOT her old lover, who has DIED since her, poor old creature; but his Son, a cultivated man, afterwards Voltaire's friend] accompanied us; and, his rooms being contiguous to those of the dead Lady, he asked us to take coffee with him afterwards.
The Imperial Bier stood in the Grand Saloon, which was hung all round with black, festooned and garlanded with cloth-of-silver; the glare of wax-lights quite blinding.