. 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 e refectory the monks in-vited us to dine with them, and we regretted that wehad already breakfasted at the railway-station. Thereis a lodging-house for travellers attached to the mon-astery, and comparing favorably with a Russian hotelof the rural sort. Nothing is charged for the rooms,but the lodger who can afford it must pay for hisfood, and in addition he is expected to drop some-thing into the contribution-box which the monks willshow
. 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 e refectory the monks in-vited us to dine with them, and we regretted that wehad already breakfasted at the railway-station. Thereis a lodging-house for travellers attached to the mon-astery, and comparing favorably with a Russian hotelof the rural sort. Nothing is charged for the rooms,but the lodger who can afford it must pay for hisfood, and in addition he is expected to drop some-thing into the contribution-box which the monks willshow him before his departure. The cooking is saidto be excellent, and the table as well supplied as anyhave a pilgrims table, where one may dine free ofis simple and limited in quantity,io of painting in the monastery, where the monks and THE WEALTH OF THE MONASTERY. 277 their pupils, forty or fifty in all, were busily at work copying from relig-ious subjects of both Greek and Latin origin. They are not confined tochurch paintings, as we saw portraits of the Emperor and other membersof the Imperial family, and several battle-scenes in which Russian arms. SPECIMENS OF ECCLESIASTICAL PAINTING ON GLASS. liave figured. There is a very good painting representing the attack ofthe Poles upon the monastery, and another illustrating the defence of Se-bastopol during the Crimean War. The monastery was enormously rich at one time, not only in thetreasures it possessed, but in grants of land and serfs which had been givenby the Government. In 1764 it had one hundred and six thousand maleserfs, and its lands covered many thousands of acres. Though losing itsserfs, it has not been without compensation, and the monastery is hand-somely supported, partly by an annual donation from the Government,and partly by the gifts of pious Russians. Doctor Bronson and the vouths returned to Moscow in the evening, as 278 THE COY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. they had pLanned, and on the next day made their
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