What happened when John Cayley got his wig caught in the chandelier

Matthew Reisz

  • By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in 18th-Century Russia by Anthony Cross
    Cambridge, 496 pp, £60.00, November 1996, ISBN 0 521 55293 1

‘Never, even in the Thames,’ a British traveller to Kronstadt wrote in the early 19th century,

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