Greeting for a rich one
When Peter was revealed in the city, he started traveling and finally decided to settle down in some house. Bendel has done all the preparations, but these preparations only amused the local people by their richness and abundance. When the day came for Peter’s arrival, that is what happened: “About a league from the town, on a sunny plain, we were stopped by a crowd of people, arrayed in holiday attire for some festival. The carriage stopped. Music, bells, cannons, were heard; and loud acclamations rang through the air.” That’s how local people greeted Peter, considering him some noble or even royal person.
Peter’s heart melted
When he was greeted by local people “Before the carriage now appeared in white dresses a chorus of maidens, all of extraordinary beauty; but one of them shone in resplendent loveliness, and eclipsed the rest as the sun eclipses the stars of night.” The image of the girl is not given accidentally; this girl is the one Peter falls in love with
A sudden change of the environment
The author very precisely depicts the changes of nature when Peter puts on magic boots and travels all around the world: “I looked round, and found myself in a wild-looking forest of ancient firs, where apparently the stroke of the axe had never been heard. A few steps more brought me amid huge rocks covered with moss and saxifragous plants, between which whole fields of snow and ice were extended. The air was intensely cold. I looked round, and the forest had disappeared behind me; a few steps more, and there was the stillness of death itself. The icy plain on which I stood stretched to an immeasurable distance, and a thick cloud rested upon it; the sun was of a red blood-color at the verge of the horizon; the cold was insupportable. I could not imagine what had happened to me.” With these descriptions, the author proves to be well-acquainted with nature of the Earth, with plants and the wilderness.
