. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A DRESSING-ROOM OF THE OPERA-HOUSE. trances for spectators besides the one reserved to the actors. The theatreis never crowded, as only as many tickets are sold as there are seats, andno money is taken at the doors. There are five rows of boxes besides theparquette, or ground-floor, and the gallery, which occupies the whole of BETWEEN THE ACTS. 255 the upper tier. We bad our places in the parquette, and found them verycomfortable. Each seat
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A DRESSING-ROOM OF THE OPERA-HOUSE. trances for spectators besides the one reserved to the actors. The theatreis never crowded, as only as many tickets are sold as there are seats, andno money is taken at the doors. There are five rows of boxes besides theparquette, or ground-floor, and the gallery, which occupies the whole of BETWEEN THE ACTS. 255 the upper tier. We bad our places in the parquette, and found them verycomfortable. Each seat is a separate arm-chair, with plenty of spacearound it, so that one may walk about between the acts without disturbinghis ailii iSJ i I 111 II WORKING THE SHIP I\ LAiRICAINK The waits between the acts were very long, according to our Amer-ican ideas, but there was a reason for this. VVe found an attendant whospoke French, and through his assistance and his expectation of a fee wevisited an unoccupied box on one of the principal tiers. The box hadplenty of seating-room for half a dozen persons; the attendant said ten or 256 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. twelve were frequently packed into it, but it was only nnfashionable peo-ple wlio ever thought of thus crowding a box. Each box has a little cabi-net or 2)arlor back of it, where one may receive friends, and a great deal ofvisiting goes on between the acts. The arrangement is an Italian one,and the same feature exists in opera-houses in other parts of Europe. To give you an idea of the size of the house, let me quote a few fig-ures comparing it with the principal theatres of Miian, Naples, and Lon-don. The measurements are in English feet: Diam
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