Travelogues; . t/5 o w o Q w ft!o< MOSCOW 157 streets of Moscow are the sacred pigeons, which must be fedat the expense of pious passers-by, who buy the corn withwhich to feed the ever-hungry liocks from the old womenstationed at various street-corners where the birds congre-gate. A few copecks are given ; the old woman crosses her-self, mutters a prayer, and tosses several handfuls of grainupon the pavement; and instantly the sky darkens as a cloudof feathered pensioners swoop down from the neighboringeaves. The pigeons are found in great numbers on the wallof the Kitai Gorod, or Chinese C
Travelogues; . t/5 o w o Q w ft!o< MOSCOW 157 streets of Moscow are the sacred pigeons, which must be fedat the expense of pious passers-by, who buy the corn withwhich to feed the ever-hungry liocks from the old womenstationed at various street-corners where the birds congre-gate. A few copecks are given ; the old woman crosses her-self, mutters a prayer, and tosses several handfuls of grainupon the pavement; and instantly the sky darkens as a cloudof feathered pensioners swoop down from the neighboringeaves. The pigeons are found in great numbers on the wallof the Kitai Gorod, or Chinese City, a name that car-ries us back to the days of the Mongol domination of Tatar rule few evidences now remain ; even the tracesof the early Muscovite period have been obliterated by. HOUSE OF THE ROMANOFFS 158 MOSCOW successive conflagrations and rebuildings of the city. Thereis but one house left to illustrate how the Russian noblemenor Boyards lived, three hundred years ago. It is called theHouse of the Romanoffs, for it was the birthplace of MichaelFeodorovitch, founder of the present dynasty, who becameTsar in 1613. Every detail of the domestic life led by themen who made Moscow great may be studied within these
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