. 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 ers, this curious sect has the place all to itself. We werepolitely treated by the waiters, and, at the advice of the guide, venturedto eat a hliiuii, for which the place is famous. It was so good that we re-peated the order. Of course we had the inevitable samovar^ and foundthe tea the best that any restaurant has thus far supplied. This traktirhas an excellent reputation for its tea and cookery ; the bill of fare is notlarge, but everythi
. 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 ers, this curious sect has the place all to itself. We werepolitely treated by the waiters, and, at the advice of the guide, venturedto eat a hliiuii, for which the place is famous. It was so good that we re-peated the order. Of course we had the inevitable samovar^ and foundthe tea the best that any restaurant has thus far supplied. This traktirhas an excellent reputation for its tea and cookery ; the bill of fare is notlarge, but everything is of the best kind. There is a Tartar restaurant where horse-flesh is said to be servedregularly ; but whether this is true or not we did not try to find out. Theplace is kept by a Russian, so that the assertion is open to some one can go to the Tartar restaurant, but it is not frequented by Rus- TARTARS OF MOSCOW. 269 sians. The Tartars do not associate freely with the Russians, thougli thereis no hostility between them. They seclude their wives after the Moslemfashion, and a Russian gentleman tells me that he has rarely had a glimpse. TARTAR COFFEK-HOUSE IN SOUTUEKN RUSSIA. of a Tartar woman, thougli he has lived near these people ever since he wasborn. For a general view of Moscow our friends took a drive to the SparrowHills, the spot whence Napoleon took his first and also his last look uponthe city he came so far to concpier. On the way thither they stopped at the Gardens, which are the propertyof the Galitsin family, and also at a small palace or villa which is the prop-erty of the Empress. These interruptions delayed them, so that it was nearsunset when they reached the Sparrow Hills and had the city in full they looked at the sunlight reflected from the hundreds of gildeddomes, and the great city spread over the undulating ground, they realizedwhat must have been the feelings of the French soldiers as they gazedupon Moscow after their long and peri
Size: 1752px × 1426px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorknoxthomaswallace1835, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880
