. 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 CLOTHES-DEALEU OF MOSCOW. A SUBURBAN FETE. 165 a section of fairy-land. Doctor Bronson told the yontlis that he was inSt. Petersburg at the time of the marriage of the Emperors son, theGrand-duke Yladimir, and one of the sights of the occasion was the illu-mination of the islands. We rode through three or four miles of illuminations, said theDoctor, and it seemed as though they would never come to an tlie very entrance of tlie island
. 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 CLOTHES-DEALEU OF MOSCOW. A SUBURBAN FETE. 165 a section of fairy-land. Doctor Bronson told the yontlis that he was inSt. Petersburg at the time of the marriage of the Emperors son, theGrand-duke Yladimir, and one of the sights of the occasion was the illu-mination of the islands. We rode through three or four miles of illuminations, said theDoctor, and it seemed as though they would never come to an tlie very entrance of tlie islands we passed the summer residenceof Count Gromolf, one of the millionaires of St. Petersburg, and found. A RUSSIAN TROIKA. it transformed into a palace of fire. Not a tree or bush in the largegarden in front of the house was without its cluster of lanterns, and oneof our party remarked that it seemed as though half the stars in thesky had fallen and found a lodgement there. In the centre of the scenewere the monograms of the Emperor and Empress, and of the newl}^-wedded pair, outlined in gas-jets; above and behind them was anImperial mantle surmounted with a crown, and all made with theburning gas. Then the whole cottage was delineated with thousandsof lights, and we agreed that never in our lives had we seen such a 166 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. beautiful picture. Nothing ever produced on the stage of a theatrecould equal it. Occasionally we came near the water, and wherever we did so itwas covered with boats which were as freely illuminated as the trees andhouses on shore. Boat-houses and bath-houses were similarly lighted up,and as they are numerous in this part of the
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