. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . emperors ofConstantinople, besieged Cherson 988, cut offthe supply of water from a neighbouring spring,and forced the inhabitants to capitulate; ingratitude for this conquest, Vladimir became aChristian, converted Cherson into a Christian city,and built many churches and other handsomestructures. The late Emperor Nicholas orderedresearches to be made among the ruins of Cherson,regarded as an early Russian city ; and as a resultof the examination, there Avere brought to light thefoundations and part
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . emperors ofConstantinople, besieged Cherson 988, cut offthe supply of water from a neighbouring spring,and forced the inhabitants to capitulate; ingratitude for this conquest, Vladimir became aChristian, converted Cherson into a Christian city,and built many churches and other handsomestructures. The late Emperor Nicholas orderedresearches to be made among the ruins of Cherson,regarded as an early Russian city ; and as a resultof the examination, there Avere brought to light thefoundations and part of the walls of three Chris-tian churches, one of which had evidently beenconstructed from the Iemains of a Greek temple,perhaps the Parthenon of ancient Cherson; forthere Avere numerous Ionic columns, capitals, andbases, built into the Avails. After this early Russicperiod in its history, Cherson was destroyed duringa war between the Muscovites and their neigh-bours ; and never since has the \renerable city beenother than a heap of ruins. Such are the extraordinary associations Avhich. 230 CAMPAIGN IN THE CRIMEA. mark the spot where the English and French tookup a military position in the month of September1854. The French, partly by design and partlythrough inadvertency, carried still further thedestruction which the old city had suffered. Whenthe Turks took the Crimea about the year 1475,they found at Cherson empty houses and desertedchurches, from which they removed the finestmarbles for their buildings at Constantinople ; buteven a century later, there were vast remains ofbeautiful palaces, churches, and monasteries,belonging of course to the Christian period ofCherson. The Russian authorities, during the latewar, expressed a real or pretended indignationagainst the French, on account of an explosionamong the ruins of one of the churches—probablyaccidental, but which the Russians chose to attri-bute to a wilful design of insulting the orthodoxfaith. English writers, on t
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