. In joyful Russia. hen we especially needed both carriages wefound that he had let one of them over our heads for theday without making any provision for us. It was a nastybit of trickery, which only served as a foil for the other-wise splendid treatment which we received during ourstay. • During the rambles which we made on the 19 th and20th we had ample opportunity to observe those featuresof every Eussian city, the isvoschiks and the the festivities of the coronation there were withinMoscow sixty-three thousand policemen, not counting thelarge number of troops that practi
. In joyful Russia. hen we especially needed both carriages wefound that he had let one of them over our heads for theday without making any provision for us. It was a nastybit of trickery, which only served as a foil for the other-wise splendid treatment which we received during ourstay. • During the rambles which we made on the 19 th and20th we had ample opportunity to observe those featuresof every Eussian city, the isvoschiks and the the festivities of the coronation there were withinMoscow sixty-three thousand policemen, not counting thelarge number of troops that practically did police is no exaggeration to say that in the matter of disciplinethe Eussian police are as good as any in the world. In thestreets of Moscow the police are supreme. The isvoschikslive in constant and unending dread of them. It is butnecessary for a policeman to glance angrily at an isvoschikto send the latter into a state bordering on collapse. It was during our drives about the city on these two. The holy or Redeemers gate of the Kremlin. BAIN AND ETIQUETTE. 93 days that we saw a good deal of the Kremlin, and over-came that feeling of comparative disappointment withwhich I believe almost every one gazes for the first timeupon that sacred pile. The Kremlin, of course, standsquite by itself, and defies comparison with any other groupof buildings in the world. Its arrangement is Oriental—that is, in the massing together of a large number of im-portant buildings within very prescribed and narrowlimits. Let me erase from the readers mind a mistakeunder which I had always rested until I visited Moscow—namely, that the Kremlin is a single magnificent building,famous for a variety of reasons. This is not so. TheKremlin, to speak strictly, is a wall, or rampart, about onethird of a mile in circumference, which surrounds andincloses a collection of churches, palaces, and public build-ings, among the most costly and sacred in all wall is pierced by fiv
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