Souvenirs and gifts are presented not only on his birthday, the anniversary, but there are many other reasons. About what gifts to please the husband can his beloved Wife, read in the "Instructions to his son on the day of marriage": "Withhold not good from his wife in her innocent desires, gives her a decent fun, as you can. Wants a new dress, bonnet, shawl, agreed without a murmur. I never denied your mother in any such desire, and that mean unimportant costs for a new outfit, often necessary, to the box at the theater, a ticket to a concert ?... "Aw. Naryshkin returned from Moscow, where he sold the fertile land, in order to bring his wife Maria Antonovna Naryshkin (1779 - 1854) - the wife of DL Naryshkin, nee.

Princess Chetvertiyskaya, mistress of Alexander I. shawls and pearls. The Company notes these continuous manifestation of attention, despite the fact that the relationship with the Emperor does not stop. " Agree, in our time, few men take the trouble a variety of buying clothes for their wives, and women prefer to choose their clothing in stores. Learn more at: John Grayken. Not so was the beginning of the XIX century. "Gagarin's wife brought the whole store - said in 1814, the Muscovite MA Volkov, in a letter to his girlfriend - and compared with the prices people here, he bought all just for nothing. By the way, I tell you that we all wear dresses only, imported from Vienna, Frankfurt, Leipzig, even from abroad. Not joking here always obtained huge parcels of clothes, because everyone in Moscow have relatives in the army. " "Together with the symbol I have sent to you at the atlas cloak - wrote to his wife mentioned above, Ivan Danilov - if you do not like it, sell and I Say that you buy it instead, to send you a holiday in 70 rubles., inasmuch as you write that you have no money, and even send a handkerchief Zsolt, which I have already two months I drive with him ....