. In joyful Russia. ion . 130 The dowager Empress descending the red staircase . . 136 The throne of Russia 143 Georgian and Caucasian costumes 151 Li Hung Chang and group 157 The imperial family 165 The Petrovski palace 168 The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Vladimir .... 173 Royal pavilion, Kadynski Plain 179 Water cart 189 ix X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PACINGPAGE Grand Opera House, Moscow . 194 Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg 200 Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, St. Petersburg .... 205 Troika sleigh 209 Bitiug and wagon 215 Trotting sulky 224 Chapel at Petrovski palace . 232 A metropol
. In joyful Russia. ion . 130 The dowager Empress descending the red staircase . . 136 The throne of Russia 143 Georgian and Caucasian costumes 151 Li Hung Chang and group 157 The imperial family 165 The Petrovski palace 168 The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Vladimir .... 173 Royal pavilion, Kadynski Plain 179 Water cart 189 ix X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PACINGPAGE Grand Opera House, Moscow . 194 Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg 200 Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, St. Petersburg .... 205 Troika sleigh 209 Bitiug and wagon 215 Trotting sulky 224 Chapel at Petrovski palace . 232 A metropolitan of the Greek Church 235 One of Moscows 1,600 churches 239 A Russian merchant—a koopyets 244 Count Tolstoi 253 Museum and Art Gallery, Moscow 262 Room in Empresss private suite in the palace of the Kremlin . 265 View of Helsingfors, Finland 268 A Finnish fisherwoman 273 Colored Plates The Emperor Frontispiece. The Cathedral of St. Basil, Moscow 87 The Cathedral of the Assumption, Moscow 183 The Empress 160. Chapter I AT THE THKESHOLD OFTHE TSAE. Stkavstvuite! said the conductor. Go to the devil!said I. Pojaluista chas! saidthe conductor with entreat-ing insistence. « You go to the devil!said I, half awake but wholly in earnest. Then I sat up, spurred into suddenand entire wakefulness, as the sleepiest man will often he, hya potent consciousness which neither poppy nor mandra-gora can ever quite drown—a consciousness that some-thing novel, interesting and long-waited for, has at last hap-pened—^that one of lifes milestones has been were tired. We had gone the pace in Paris andBerlin, and had had to catch both sleep and rest as bestwe could en voyage; for the Dutch gentleman and theChinese merchant prince who shared our compartmenthad jabbered together in execrable French with an in-cessaney that then, there, and forever destroyed my beliefin the phlegm and reticence of their respective nations. 2 IN JOYFUL RUSSIA. Yet after one brief moment of somnolent imp
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