"Pillau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ridiculous a condition to consider, so Minna disguised as a peasant woman, and a friendly lumberman took her across the border as his wife. The friends of Wagner took up a purse for him, and by elaborate manoeuvres got him across the Russian border in disguise. He reached the seaport of Pillau, found his wife and his dog there, and set ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes
... a passport for Paris, he found it impossible because of his debts. Not to be turned from his purpose, he, Minna and the great Newfoundland dog, his pet companion, all slipped away from Riga at night and in disguise. At the port of Pillau the trio embarked on a sailing vessel for Paris, the object of all his hopes. The young composer carried with him one opera and half of a second work—"Rienzi," which he had written during the years of struggle in Magdeburg and Koenigsberg. In Riga he had come upon Heine's version ...
— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower |
