Schweitzer African Robinson 1725 - curiose message from the Travel Christoph Gassmann's
Curiose message / From / travel Christoph Gassmann's / the masons of / Albis = Rieden. / The in Saxony and Swedish / belligerent services stood / bey Poltava / prisoner / to Moscow / Casan / Astrakhan / under the Kalmuk and other tar = / plantar been done / fehr listeners / A journey across the Caspian Sea and / Persia done / and finally A. 1724 nach/22.jährigem absence near home / come.
So short and sweet is the title of one of my favorite books on Russia. What it is is out of his name before you can - the astonishing adventures of an involuntary Zurich stonemasons who fell in foreign service, and after the battle of Poltava long years in captivity of the Russian tsar and the people in captivity of Kalmü ; spent bridges. Because the stone was Gassmann accept, we must not even read and write, worried his pastor, the compilation of his experiences. To adorn Gassmann's religious experiences but can and God's work to make it clear is unfortunately not clear in some passages, this is gas man or his pastor. Especially as the pastor also all available literature used to - for him unclear - Gassmann's statements to interpret with learned explanations.
Despite these cliffs, the little book a wonderful resource and a complement to any Russia-Travel Guide. For here you will find many a cliché that haunts today in the world around, and Gassmann's descriptions allow the Russia of that time, the beginning of the 18th Century, compared with the Russia of today. Then - just as only several massive peasant uprisings the Empire were shattered. When it was among young adventurers fashion, as Tsar spend and fight for the throne. When was the Great Migration to the immigration of Buddhist Kalmyk in the Russian steppes to an end. As the magnificent St. Petersburg until the building was, and yet already hinted his future, so important position among the cities of the world. And other famous cities such as Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod was little more than a collection of shabby wooden huts.
A reprint of the "Travel Christoph Gassmann's "1976 in Paul Haupt Verlag, Bern, appeared, the book is available in many libraries. guess
Many quotes from Christoph Gassmann's memoirs can be, that Russia does not have the image of Europeans in the last 300 years changed but - here is already talk of the "eternal" Russian stereotypes : contrast of affluence and poverty, the country's vastness, cold, vodka ..
"Among us is in it something very rare Schweitz, a man , See the so stopped at our suite in landing as this, which I Begegegnussen communiciere.
"I very much doubt that so far beyond the Volga was a member of our canton of Zurich ever".
"How should we come from such lands been watching TV again for our country so much desired Vatter, since we were without clothes, without gel, with no security?"
"You do not have to wonder whether I was in captivity eaten camel meat, you can think of themselves ".
"Everything here is Wolfeil and Uber river - the Volga giveth a Quantitet fish and crustaceans that are fulfilled by wild Insle Endt and geese, there grows a very strange and wohlgeschmackter good wine. " away
"When we found among us a burning desire to see our dear Vatterland once again, and Sun dise our suite and to a much Oerter unangenähme with something better zuverwechslen, so we decided to Tsar us the feet to throw, and very humbly zubegehren our separation. "
" Russia is in many wild Russians Orthen all sand layer and full, it is certain that a lot of people are horrible abstain because that is not because of the large zubewunderen spaciousness.
"The water to all sorts of species of fish, and on the north shore, it giveth a = Quantitet salmon and sturgeon, oxen, cows, goats, sheep, pigs are gnug, wild pigs, rabbits, wood-ox Misery animals, camels, animals bey the Tartars, the reindeer Lapps bey .. "
" The ground is cold, and winter is so grim that the inhabitants of Moscow noses and frozen ears. Therefore they have their fur vonnöhten works greatly. "
" The greatest desire of the Russians was to drink with brandy full and great. "
"The present Czar, Russia in another Gesetzet state, so that one knows no longer in Russia today, and it darbey veränderet from day to day more. "
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