Ancient Manners.--Peter the Great.--Eudoxia.--Empress
Catharine, her dissolute Conduct and Death.--Peter's
Libertinism.--Anne.--Elizabeth.--Catharine II., infamous
Career and Death.--Paul.--Alexander I.--Countess Narishkin.--
Nicholas.--Court Morality.--Serfage.--Prostitution in St.
Petersburg.--Excess of Males over Females.--Marriage
Customs.--Brides' Fair.--Conjugal Relations among the Russian
Nobility.--Foundling Hospital of St. Petersburg.--
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