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– The expedition to Kertch is returned, and, at the moment that I write, it is off Balaklava harbour.
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From Kertch, where a singularly surly and uncommunicative French-speaking civilian took me in charge (with a couple of dragoons to remind me what I was), we went by sloop across the Azov Sea to Taganrog, a dirty little port, and joined the party of an imperial courier whose journey lay the same way as ours.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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The journey from Yalta through the woody hills to Kertch was not noteworthy; once you've seen a corner of the Crimea you've seen it all, and it's not really Russia.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Not that it concerned me much - I didn't mind a holiday in Russia, being treated as an honoured guest rather than a prisoner, for Radziwill hastened to reassure me that what they intended to do was send me across the Crimea to Kertch, and then by boat to mainland Russia, where I'd be safely tucked away on a country estate.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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We arrived in Kertch, as I have said, exhausted and hungry.
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It was not difficult to steer, for the lights in Kertch were still visible, and served as a beacon.
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Seeing that there was no work for us, and that the construction of the harbor was going on very well without our help, we moved on resentfully toward Kertch.
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Tomorrow the boatmen will be going over to Kertch, and they can take it with them.
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In order to shorten our road to Kertch we left the coast, and tramped across the steppes.
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Owing to this painful circumstance, when, at last we reached Kertch, we could hardly move our legs, so seeking therefore work was out of the question.
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