. 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 tenth part of itwe shall be fortunate. Naturally the conversation, after theirreturn, related to what they had seen ; andin this connection the Doctor gave theyouths some interesting information. The university we have seen to-day,said he, is not by any means the oldestin Kussia, nor is it the largest. The hon-or of age and extent belongs to the Uni-versity of Moscow, which was founded in1755, while that of St. Petersburg wasfounded in 1818
. 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 tenth part of itwe shall be fortunate. Naturally the conversation, after theirreturn, related to what they had seen ; andin this connection the Doctor gave theyouths some interesting information. The university we have seen to-day,said he, is not by any means the oldestin Kussia, nor is it the largest. The hon-or of age and extent belongs to the Uni-versity of Moscow, which was founded in1755, while that of St. Petersburg wasfounded in 1818. The Moscow Univer-sity has one thousand eight hundred stu-dents, and seventy-two professors andlecturers, and there are one hundred andfifty thousand volumes in its library. The Government gives about three hundred thousand dollars annually inaid of the Moscow University, and many of Russias most celebrated menhave been educated there. The oldest university in the Empire was at Abo, in Finland, but thebuildings w^ere destroyed in a great fire in 1827, and afterwards the uni-versity was established at Helsingfors. It was originally founded in 1630,. DESCENDING A SHAFT. 160 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
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