. 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 of art in the castle until 1831, when they were removedto St. Petersburg. In the square in front of the castle is a statue of oneof the kings of Poland, and we were told that the square was the scene ofsome of the uprisings of the Poles against their Russian masters. From the castle we went to the cathedral, which was built in thethirteenth century, and contains monuments to the memory of several oftlie kings and other great men of the coun
. 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 of art in the castle until 1831, when they were removedto St. Petersburg. In the square in front of the castle is a statue of oneof the kings of Poland, and we were told that the square was the scene ofsome of the uprisings of the Poles against their Russian masters. From the castle we went to the cathedral, which was built in thethirteenth century, and contains monuments to the memory of several oftlie kings and other great men of the country. It is j^ioper to say here RELIGIONS OF THE PEOPLE. 53 that the Catholic is the prevailing religion of Poland, and no doubt muchof the hatred of Russians and Poles for each other is in consequence oftheir religious differences. By the latest figures of the population thatwe have at hand, Russian Poland contains about 3,800,000 Catholics,300,000 Protestants, 700,000 Jews, and 250,000 members of the GreekChurch and adherents of other religions, or a little more than 5,000,000of inhabitants in all. Like all people who have been oppressed, the Cath-. SHRINE AT A GATEWAY. olics and Jews are exceedingly devout, and adhere unflinchingly to theirreligious faith. Churches and synagogues are numerous in Warsaw, as inthe other Polish cities. In our ride through Warsaw we j)assed many 54 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. shrines, and at nearly all of tlieni the faithful were kneeling to repeat tlieprayers prescribed by their religious teachers. From the cathedral we went to the citadel, which is on a hill in thecentre of the city, and was built after the revolution of 1830. The expenseof its construction was placed upon the people as a punishment for therevolution, and for the purpose of bombarding the city in case of another rebellion. From the walls of the cit-adel there is a fine view of consider-al)le extent; but there is nothing inthe place of special interest. Thefort is
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