About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I—that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century—just as four o'clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, whose gilded vane overlooks the ramparts of the fortress, a crowd, composed of all sorts and conditions of people, began to gather in front of a house which belonged to General Count Tchermayloff, formerly military governor of a fair-sized town in the government of Pultava. The first spectators had been attracted by the preparations which they saw had been made in the middle of the courtyard for administering torture with the knout. One of the general's serfs, he who acted as barber, was to be the victim.
100 Klassiker der Romantik - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss
Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, William Shakespeare, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Dickens, L. M. Montgomery, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Leo Tolstoi, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prosper Mérimée, Edith Wharton, Lena Christ, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Gaston Leroux, Nataly von Eschstruth, Gottfried von Straßburg, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Benedikte Naubert, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Levin Schücking
bookDer Graf von Monte Christo (Dritter Band)
Alexandre Dumas
audiobookDer Graf von Monte Christo - der Flucht-Klassiker von Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, Max Kruse
audiobookDas Halsband der Königin - Teil 2 : Rivalen der Liebe, Rivalen der Gier.
Alexandre Dumas
audiobookDie drei Musketiere : Band 1
Alexandre Dumas
bookDie Gräfin Charny
Alexandre Dumas
bookDie drei Musketiere : Band 2
Alexandre Dumas
bookLady Hamilton
Alexandre Dumas
bookDie drei Musketiere : 20 Jahre danach
Alexandre Dumas
bookDie Kameliendame
Alexandre Dumas
bookAnge Pitou : Band 3
Alexandre Dumas
bookAnge Pitou : Band 2
Alexandre Dumas
book
The Borgias
Alexandre Dumas
bookThe Cenci
Alexandre Dumas
bookMassacres of the South
Alexandre Dumas
bookMary Stuart
Alexandre Dumas
bookKarl-Ludwig Sand
Alexandre Dumas
bookUrbain Grandier
Alexandre Dumas
bookNisida
Alexandre Dumas
bookDerues
Alexandre Dumas
bookLa Constantin
Alexandre Dumas
bookJoan of Naples
Alexandre Dumas
bookMan in the Iron Mask (an Essay)
Alexandre Dumas
bookMartin Guerre
Alexandre Dumas
book