. 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 hreehorses are harnessed abreast, thecentral one having above his headthe inevitable duga, or yoke. Ina well-trained troika the centralhorse trots, while the two othersgallop, with their heads turned out-ward. It is a dashing and attrac-tive team, and has already made itsway into other countries than Kus-sia. The first part of the drive car-ried Doctor Bronson and his youngcompanions through streets occu-pied by the poorer classes, Ijut far
. 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 hreehorses are harnessed abreast, thecentral one having above his headthe inevitable duga, or yoke. Ina well-trained troika the centralhorse trots, while the two othersgallop, with their heads turned out-ward. It is a dashing and attrac-tive team, and has already made itsway into other countries than Kus-sia. The first part of the drive car-ried Doctor Bronson and his youngcompanions through streets occu-pied by the poorer classes, Ijut far-ther on they passed great numbers of pretty villas, which are tlie summer homes of the well-to-do inhabitantsof the city. There is an Imperial villa on one of the islands, and occasionally theEmperor gives a fete in honor of some event, or for the entertainment ofa foreign guest. At such times the trees are filled with Chinese lanterns,and the entire building is a blaze of light. The people on the line of theroad follow the Imperial example, and illuminate their houses, and thetraveller who drives there might easily imagine that he had dropped into. 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
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