Siberia and the exile system . of the famous kremUn in Moscow. Upon landing from the ferry-boat in the old town ofMzhni Novgorod, we drove to a hotel in the upper part ofthe city, and after securing rooms and sending our passportsto the chief of police, we walked down past the kremlin to 3 A l-renilin, or, to use the Eussiau buildings, such as churches, palaces,form of the word, a kreml, is mere- treasuries, etc., which are meiely pro-ly a walled enclosure with towers at tected by it. It is popularly supposedthe corners, situated in a commanding that the only l-ninlin in Eussia is thatposition
Siberia and the exile system . of the famous kremUn in Moscow. Upon landing from the ferry-boat in the old town ofMzhni Novgorod, we drove to a hotel in the upper part ofthe city, and after securing rooms and sending our passportsto the chief of police, we walked down past the kremlin to 3 A l-renilin, or, to use the Eussiau buildings, such as churches, palaces,form of the word, a kreml, is mere- treasuries, etc., which are meiely pro-ly a walled enclosure with towers at tected by it. It is popularly supposedthe corners, situated in a commanding that the only l-ninlin in Eussia is thatposition near the center of a city, and of Moscow ; but this is a mistake. Mzh-intended to serve as a stronghold, or nl Novgorod, Kazan, and several otherplace of refuge, for the inhabitants in towns in the part of Russia that wastime of war. It differs from a castle or subject to Tatar invasion, had strong-fortress in that it generally incloses a holds of this kind,larger area, and contains a number of FROM ST. PETERSBURG TO PERM 11. m iJllIJll:iLl. L ,. A PAUT UF Tin: UL1> TOWN nF NI/lINr NuVtioIlOl 12 SIBERIA the river front. Under the long bluft upon which the cityand the hremlm stand, and between the steep escarpment andthe river, there is a narrow strip of level ground which isnow given up almost wholly to commerce and is known asthe lower bazar. Upon this strip of land are huddled to-gether in picturesque confusion a multitude of buildings ofthe most heterogeneous character and appearance. Preten-tious modern stores, with gilded signs and plate-glass win-dows, stand in neighborly proximity to wretched huckstersstalls of rough, unpainted boards; banks, hotels, and steam-ship offices are sandwiched in among ship-chandlers shops,old-clothes stalls, and traktirs;^ fantastic, highly coloredchurches of the last century appear in the most unexpectedplaces, and give an air of sanctity to the most disreputableneighborhoods ; and the entire region, from the river to thebluff, is c
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