Travelogues; . ;h-ii.^saai. THE RED SQUARE of agony so intense that they knew not whether they weresuffering pain or pleasure, so this creation of his architecttortures our eyes, until we exclaim in one and the samebreath, How hideous! — how beautiful! and know notwhich expression voices our true feeling. We know notwhether to praise or blame the Tsar Ivan, who put out theeyes of the unhappy designer of this church lest he shouldbuild another like it. The interior is extremely curious. 164 MOSCOW Tiny cells oi chap-els under everydome; low narrowdoorways piercedin walls so thickthat w
Travelogues; . ;h-ii.^saai. THE RED SQUARE of agony so intense that they knew not whether they weresuffering pain or pleasure, so this creation of his architecttortures our eyes, until we exclaim in one and the samebreath, How hideous! — how beautiful! and know notwhich expression voices our true feeling. We know notwhether to praise or blame the Tsar Ivan, who put out theeyes of the unhappy designer of this church lest he shouldbuild another like it. The interior is extremely curious. 164 MOSCOW Tiny cells oi chap-els under everydome; low narrowdoorways piercedin walls so thickthat we can easilyimagine that thechurch was sculp-tured from one gi-gantic block ofstone, in whichthe little cavernsand their connect-ing corridors hadbeen laboriouslymined and hol-THK iPKMAKMi 1 ,,\i 1 KKv lowcd. , we have the sensation of wandering through the passages
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