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# Samuel Bentham began sleeping on the floor before his 1774 trip to Russia
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/samuil-bentam-brat-angliiskogo-myslitelia-ieremii-bentama-sluzhil-v-rossii-u-kniazia-potemkina/
- Published: 2023-01-06T14:01:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:56:09.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Mores, People, Humour

Samuel Bentham, brother of the English thinker Jeremy Bentham, served in Russia under Prince Potemkin. When Samuel was invited to come to Russia in 1774, he began preparing for the journey well in advance and took to sleeping on the floor, supposing that in that distant, unknown country they had no notion of comfort and did not know what a bed was