. 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 MININ-POJARSKY MONUMEiNT. 258 THE BOY TRAVELLEES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Jews use the aJxicus in counting, and tliey work it with wonderful rapid-ity. We saw it in St. Petersburg, but it was not so much employed thereas in Moscow. The abacus has undergone very little change in two orthree thousand years. It was introduced by the Tartar conquerors ofRussia, and promises to remain permanently in the Empire. What a quantity of silks, embroideri
. 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 MININ-POJARSKY MONUMEiNT. 258 THE BOY TRAVELLEES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Jews use the aJxicus in counting, and tliey work it with wonderful rapid-ity. We saw it in St. Petersburg, but it was not so much employed thereas in Moscow. The abacus has undergone very little change in two orthree thousand years. It was introduced by the Tartar conquerors ofRussia, and promises to remain permanently in the Empire. What a quantity of silks, embroideries, silverware, and the like arepiled in the bazaar! and what an array of clothing, household goods, furni-ture, and other practical and unpractical things of every name and kind !It was the Bazaar of St. Petersburg over again, with the absence of certainfeatures, that suggested Western Europe and the addition of others be-longing to the Orient. The second-hand market was encumbeied with. PETEK S ESCAPE FROM ASSASSINATION. old clothes, pots, pans, boots, furniture, and odds and ends of everything,and we were so pestered by the peddlers that we went through the j^lacepretty quickly. The guide took us to Pomanoff House, which was built near the endof the sixteenth century, and was the birthplace of Michael, tlie first Czarof the present reigning family. Of the original house only the walls re-main ; the interior was destroyed by the French, who plundered thebuilding and then set it on fire, and only the great thickness and solidityof the walls preserved them. Romanoff House, as we saw it to-day, is an excellent example of the ROMANOFF HOUSE. 259 Rnssian house of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in this re-spect it is very interesting. The last restoration was made in 1858-59, andthe Government has spent quite an amount of money in putting it inorder. It is four stories high, and built around a court-yard from which therooms on the ground-floor are entered. In
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