Note 14 — Chapter X · IRKOUTSK TO TOMSK.
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Such a one is the young and beautiful Countess Ignatieff, wife of the Governor of Irkoutsk, who, it would seem, is as much at home in the frozen forests of Eastern Siberia as in the salons of Paris or Petersburg. One of her latest exploits was to accompany the general to Yakoutsk——a voyage of three months from Irkoutsk——the greater part of which had to be accomplished in small birch-bark canoes.