The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song

book it a long time in advance. It is far better to travel by troïka,

as you are then free to stop when you like and as long as you like, and you get an uninterrupted view of the country through which you pass.

About the middle of June, having previously obtained a formidable-looking document by which Alexander Alexandrovich, Autocrat of all the Russias, commanded all postmast...