Russian geography in the French textbook

In Chisinau, since the end of January 1821, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been at the home of Governor Ivan Yakovlevich Bukharin and his wife Elizabeth Feodorovna, where he is "adopted as a native." He "often escapes from the guests in the nursery, " where the 10-year-old daughter of the owners, Vera and her brother Nikolai, repeat the lessons. Pushkin is amazed by the name of the river "Zhenisea". It turns out that in the French textbook of geography, which then studied, so called Yenisei. Illustration from the new book "AS Pushkin and France, part one".