excerpt from the book...PASSPORTS, POLICE, AND POST-OFFICE IN RUSSIA.We imported into Russia, untaxed, undiscovered by the custom-houseofficials, a goodly stock of misadvice, misinformation, apprehensions,and prejudices, like most foreigners, albeit we were unusually wellinformed, and confident that we were correctly posted on the grandoutlines of Russian life, at least. We were forced to begin verypromptly the involuntary process of getting rid of them. Our anxietybegan in Berlin. We visited th
...e Russian consul-general there to get ourpassports _vised_. He said, "You should have got the signature of theAmerican consul. Do that, and return here."
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