. 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 ontinuous. The best goods are in the Gostinna Dvor proper, while the inferiorones are in the annexes. Some of the shops have fixed prices, but inmost of them there is a system of bargaining which is not agreeable tothe traveller from the Occident. lie is never certain that he has paid theproper price, even when he has brought the merchant dowil to what ap-pears to be his lowest figure. We bought a few articles of Russian manufacture to send
. 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 ontinuous. The best goods are in the Gostinna Dvor proper, while the inferiorones are in the annexes. Some of the shops have fixed prices, but inmost of them there is a system of bargaining which is not agreeable tothe traveller from the Occident. lie is never certain that he has paid theproper price, even when he has brought the merchant dowil to what ap-pears to be his lowest figure. We bought a few articles of Russian manufacture to send home toour friends. Among them were samovars, inlaid goods from Tula, em-broidered slippers and sashes from the Tartar provinces, malachite andlapis-lazuli jewellery, and some Circassian ornaments of silver. Many ofthe articles sold in the Gostinna Dvor are of English, German, and French THE FROZEN MARKET. 113 manufacture, which are largely increased in price owing to the dutiesplaced upon them by the custom-house. Our guide directed us from the rear of the building along theBolslioia Sadovaia^ or Great Garden Street, which is a line of shops and. IMPORTUNING A VISITOR. bazaars, to the Semiaia Plos/tad, or Hay-market. This is a large openplace or square, which is less interesting now than in winter. In summerit is devoted to the sale of hay and live-stock, but in winter it is fillednot only with the hay, grain, and live-stock of summer, but with frozenanimals, which form the principal food of the inhabitants of the is what one traveller has written about the frozen market: On one side you see a collection of frozen sheep—stiii, ghastly ob- 8 114 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. jects—some poised on their lioofs like the wooden animals in a childs Noahs Ark; others on their sides, with their legs projecting at rightangles to their bodies ; others, again, on their backs, with their feet in theair like inverted tables. The oxen are only less grotesque from
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