Travelogues; . THE REDEEMER GATH the Redeemers Portal, finding ourselves in a surprisingly vastlevel square, above which rises the most famous edifice inRussia. It is the belfry of the Kremlin, known as the towerof Ivan Veliky. It marks the very heart of the circle of its shadow lie the holiest shrines ofMuscovy : the cathedral in which the Tsars are crowned,another where Imperial marriages are solemnized, and athird in which the Tsars of old sleep their last sleep, content 202 MOSCOW to rest forever inthe city wherethey ruled, whiletheir successorsslumber in stillanother, new ne


Travelogues; . THE REDEEMER GATH the Redeemers Portal, finding ourselves in a surprisingly vastlevel square, above which rises the most famous edifice inRussia. It is the belfry of the Kremlin, known as the towerof Ivan Veliky. It marks the very heart of the circle of its shadow lie the holiest shrines ofMuscovy : the cathedral in which the Tsars are crowned,another where Imperial marriages are solemnized, and athird in which the Tsars of old sleep their last sleep, content 202 MOSCOW to rest forever inthe city wherethey ruled, whiletheir successorsslumber in stillanother, new ne-cropolis, upon thebanks of the coldNeva in modernSt. Petersburg. In the shadowof the tower aretwo famous andfamihar things ;one is a cannon,the other is a front of thecaserne is ranged. THK NICHOLAS GATti


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