. 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 TAPKSTRY AND FIKE UTKNSILS AT PKTERHOF. 138 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. depth of twenty feet, so that a great many vessels which were formerlyexcluded on account of their size can ascend to the capital. During theCrimean war Cronstadt was blockaded by a French and English fleet; anattack was made on the forts of Cronstadt, but it was easily repulsed; andafter that time the allies did nothing more than regard the forts from asa
. 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 TAPKSTRY AND FIKE UTKNSILS AT PKTERHOF. 138 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. depth of twenty feet, so that a great many vessels which were formerlyexcluded on account of their size can ascend to the capital. During theCrimean war Cronstadt was blockaded by a French and English fleet; anattack was made on the forts of Cronstadt, but it was easily repulsed; andafter that time the allies did nothing more than regard the forts from asafe distance. At Oranienbaum is a palace, from whose top the EmperorNicholas used to watch the movements of the hostile fleet; the telescopehe employed is still in the position where he left it on his last trip to :.. DOOR-WAY OF HOUSE AT ZAANDAM, HOLLAND. While our friends were looking at the naval harbor of Cronstadt andthe splendid fleet at anchor there. Doctor Bronson reminded the youthsthat when Peter the Great ascended the throne Russia had no navy, andnone of her people knew anything about building ships. I have read about it, said Frank, and it was to learn the art ofship-building that he went to England and Holland. That is what history tells us, the Doctor answered. He realizedthe inferior condition of a country without a navy, and sent intelligentyoung Russians to study the art of building and navigating ships. Notsatisfied with what they learned, he left Russia for about a year and ahalf, which he spent in acquiring useful knowledge. He worked in a ship-yard in Holland disguised as a common workman, though it is generallybelieved that the officers in charge of the yard knew who he was. After-wards he spent three months in an English ship-yard; and when he CURIOSITIES OF RUSSIAN
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