Narrative of a Journey Into Persia, in the Suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the Year 1817 (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

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It has hitherto been my lot to be thus made the sport of fortune. At the age of sixteen I sailed round the world. I was eighteen, when, amidst the tumult of war at Friedland, I had an arm shat tered by a grape-shot. In my twenty-fourth year, I again fought the battles of my country under the gallant Count Wittgenstein, and had the misfor tune to be taken prisoner. I was marched to France, liberated by my victorious countrymen,19 journey To persia.

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