Anton Antonovitch, Portrait Of A Russian Gentleman By H. Sutherland Edwards. An Uncommon Original Article From The Cornhill Magazine – Circa 1861

Anton Antonovitch was a good and pious Russian, who held sin, soap and razors in almost equal detestation, despised cold water as a destructive luxury and, so far from holding that cleanliness is next to godliness, looked upon that supposed virtue as the origin if not of all, at least of a great many evils..’ An uncommon original article (1861) – 9 pages H:21.5 x W:13cm