Travelogues; . WHERE TSARS ARE BAPTI2EU AND MARRIED 214 MOSCOW Orthodoxy ; and on another side is the headquarters of the Holy Synod, which controls the mighty religious machinery of the Orthodox church. But the most important structure is the square, five-domed cathedral of the Assumption, within which every Tsar of Russia has been crowned, or rather has himself placed the crown upon his own imperial brow. We were struck by the spectacle that greeted us within. The. CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION witiim the four great central columns was securely hedgedabout with ropes and carpeted with gorgeo
Travelogues; . WHERE TSARS ARE BAPTI2EU AND MARRIED 214 MOSCOW Orthodoxy ; and on another side is the headquarters of the Holy Synod, which controls the mighty religious machinery of the Orthodox church. But the most important structure is the square, five-domed cathedral of the Assumption, within which every Tsar of Russia has been crowned, or rather has himself placed the crown upon his own imperial brow. We were struck by the spectacle that greeted us within. The. CATHEDRAL OF THE ANNUNCIATION witiim the four great central columns was securely hedgedabout with ropes and carpeted with gorgeous rugs. Five orsix officials in full-dress uniforms were standing there engagedin ceremonial worship, while on the altar terrace and in theholy of holies beyond the iconostasis a score of superblygroomed and gorgeously arrayed priests and bishops werechanting with wonderful bass voices, organ-like in theirsonority, the music of the mass. And then, to complete theinteresting picture, there stood outside the ropes, in the MOSCOW 215
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