With  true  English  taste  for  country  life,  many  of  the
merchants  have  built  pretty  cottages  along  the  shores  of
the  bay,  where  they  spend  the  brief  but  beautiful  summer
with  their  families.  Their  example;  in  this,  also,  has
been  followed  by  some  of  the  noble  Russians,  whose
villas  on  the  road  to  Peterhof  are  very  fine.  Among
these  are  Kras-nniamouua  and  Hah-hah,  elegant  man-
sions belonging  to  the  Naryshkine  family.  Other  famihes,
such  as  those  of  Ostermann-Tolstoy,  Khitrovo,  Daschkoff,
Chouvaloff,  Demidoff,  and  many  other  "  offs,"  might  be
named  among  the  possessors  of  fine  villas  in  the  neighbour-
hood ;  but  the  names  of  the  proprietors  are  as  difficult  to


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transcribe  as  those  of  Viasemski,  Belzko'i,  Miloradovitch,
Belocelskij  Lapoukhine,  Zavadofski,  Ghika,  CheremetiefF,
JakovlefF,  Tchernicheflf,  Roumantsoff,  LomonosofF,  Kha-
nikoff,  TchitchagofF,  IsmailofF,  &c.  &c.,  which  adorn
the  mausoleums  and  monuments  of  the  capital,  but  are
never  placed  by  the  traveller  in  his  notes,  from  the
difficulty  of  writing  such  unwonted  sounds.
