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Title: The monastery of Petschenga

Sketches of Russian Lapland (from historical and legendary sources)

Author: J. A. Friis

Translator: Hill Repp

Release date: November 13, 2023 [eBook #72118]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Elliot Stock, 1896

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PETSCHENGA MONASTERY.

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Original Title Page.

THE
MONASTERY OF PETSCHENGA.

SKETCHES OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND.

(FROM HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY SOURCES.)

BY
J. A. FRIIS,
Professor in the University of Christiania.
Translated by Hill Repp.
LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1896.

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TO THE PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS
OF THE
FAMILY OF CARR ELLISON,
OF HEDGELEY, IN THE COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND,
THE FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS OF MY LATE PARENTS,
AND OF THEIR CHILDREN,
THIS TRANSLATION IS LOVINGLY
AND GRATEFULLY
DEDICATED.

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NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.

To Professor Friis, of Christiania, who very kindly gave me permission to publish a translation of this book, and to T. M. Fallow, Esq., M.A., of Coatham House, Coatham, who has assisted me in the translation, I offer my sincere thanks.

HILL REPP.

Redcar,
April, 1896.

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AUTHORITIES.

A letter, dated Vardö, August 7, 1590, preserved among the State Archives of Norway; Büschings Magazine, Halle, 1773; Opisanie Archangelskoi Gubernii, by S. Kosma Moltscanoff, St. Petersburg, 1813; the periodical Suomi for 1843–1848; Opisanie Archangelskoi Gubernii, by Poschman, Archangel, 1866; Ruskii Wiestnik, Siderof, 1866; Sapiski dljä Stenia, Tschubinski, St. Petersburg, 1867; Murmanskii i Terskii Berega, E. Ogorodnikoff, St. Petersburg, 1869; Novoje Wremja, December 10, 1883.