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Title: Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest
And Other Stories

Author: M. E. Bewsher

Release Date: April 25, 2007 [EBook #21216]

Language: English

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CATHARINE'S PERIL;

OR,

The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest.

_A TALE FOUNDED ON FACT._

BY MRS. M. E. BEWSHER,

_Author of 'The Little Ballet-Girl,' 'The Gipsy's Secret,' etc. etc._

AND OTHER STORIES.

Seventh Thousand.

EDINBURGH:
OLIPHANT, ANDERSON, & FERRIER
(LATE WILLIAM OLIPHANT & CO.).
1881.

_MORRISON AND GIBB, EDINBURGH_,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

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CONTENTS.

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CATHARINE'S PERIL;

OR,

THE LITTLE RUSSIAN GIRL LOST IN A FOREST.

CHAPTER I.

In the year 1812, Napoleon Buonaparte, after conquering nearly the whole
of Europe, invaded Russia, and led his victorious army to Moscow, the
ancient capital of that country. Soon this city, with its winding
streets, its hills, its splendid churches, its fine houses and cottages
so mixed together, its corn-fields, woods, and gardens, as well as the
Kremlin, consisting of several churches, palaces, and halls collected on
the top of a hill and surrounded by walls, fell into the power of the
French.

Rostopchin, the Governor, impelled by bigoted patriotism, resolved to
set fire to the city confided to him