. 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 cow forms a markedcontrast to the younger capital, as there is little attempt at uniformity andregularity. You see the hut of a peasant side by side with the palace ofa nobleman; a stable rises close against a church, and there is a carpen-ters shop, with its half-dozen workmen, abutting close against an immensefactory where hundreds of hands are employed. Moscow is a city of con-trasts ; princes and beggars almost jostle each other in the
. 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 cow forms a markedcontrast to the younger capital, as there is little attempt at uniformity andregularity. You see the hut of a peasant side by side with the palace ofa nobleman; a stable rises close against a church, and there is a carpen-ters shop, with its half-dozen workmen, abutting close against an immensefactory where hundreds of hands are employed. Moscow is a city of con-trasts ; princes and beggars almost jostle each other in the streets; thehouses of rich and poor are in juxtaposition, and it is only a few shortsteps from the palace of the Kremlin, with its treasures of gold and jew-els, to the abodes of most abject poverty. THE BUENING OF MOSCOW. 231 Frank and Fred were quick to observe this peculiarity of the ancientcapital of the Czars, and at the first opportunity they questioned theDoctor concerning it. What is the cause of so many contrasts here which we did not see inSt. Petersburg ? one of them inquired. That is the question I asked on my first visit, Doctor Bronson. STREET SCENE IN MOSCOW. replied. I was told that it was due to the burning of Moscow in 1812,at the time of its capture by Napoleon. How much of the city was burned V Fred asked. The greater pait of it was destroyed, was the reply, but therewere many buildings of stone and brick that escaped. Most of thechurches were saved, as the Russians were reluctant to commit the sacri-lege of burning edifices which had been consecrated to religious of the churches as were consumed in the conflagration were set onfire by neighboring buildings rather than by the hands of the Russians. Then it was the Russians that burned Moscow, and not the French,said Fred. I have read somewhere that it is all a falsehood that theRussians consigned their city to the flames, From all I can learn, both by reading and conversation, answeredthe Doctor
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