{"id":5423,"date":"2024-03-31T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2024-03-31T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T19:58:11","slug":"journal-of-a-residence-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2024\/03\/31\/journal-of-a-residence-in-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal of a residence in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this sturdy stationery-bound journal (Post-1650 MS 0806) and join Hugh Perkins as he embarks from London to St. Petersburg, traveling through the North and Baltic Seas in the autumn of 1834, writing and sketching along the way.<\/p>\n

\"Leather-bound<\/p>\n

\"Journal<\/p>\n

His illustrations are skillful, executed in various media, including pencil, watercolor, and gouache, documenting ships, birds, landscapes, landmarks, and costumes. His written entries describe the weather, his daily encounters, and tidbits about local culture and customs:<\/p>\n

\u201c2 December. It continues to thaw; to day is a great holiday among the Russians being the anniversary of the death of Alexander. My Russian master came & I took a lesson. In the evening stink pots were lighted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If St. Petersburg is too chilly a destination for you (\u201cthe strong frost has now lasted 5 days & is very disagreeable as you cannot go out without being in bodily fear of losing your nose\u201d; \u201cweather like yesterday enough to give a saint the blue devils\u201d), Perkins\u2019 journal also describes a balmier voyage to Madeira in the spring of 1838. He describes several hiking expeditions around the island, with ponies and hammocks for the \u201cladies \u2026 in case they should feel fatigued\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe arrived at length on the summit of a most magnificent ravine \u2026 the mountains on the opposite sides half of which were hidden in the clouds were covered with broom in full blossom \u2026\u201d; \u201cThe whole beach was composed of scoria & other volcanic remains; about 300 yards from the shore there is a larger rock or island \u2026 its summit was covered with wildflowers \u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The final sixty leaves remain tantalizingly blank, leaving us to wonder where Hugh Perkins\u2019 travels took him next. His journal, at any rate, made its way to Central Illinois and now rests from its long road in our Post-1650 Manuscript Collection.<\/p>\n

Shelf-mark: Post-1650 MS 0806<\/a>
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