. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. pillage that awaitedhis impatient legions. If Moscow eighty-seven years ago lookedfrom those hills as it looks to-day, his heart, sated as it was withconquest, must have beat high. Through the Troitski Gate ofthe Kremlin he entered next day. In this tiny Byzantine arch-roofed room of the old palace he slept. One day later he climbedthis narrow winding stair to this little balcony to watch Moscowburning. By this Red Staircase he led his glittering Marshalsinto the Palace. In t
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. pillage that awaitedhis impatient legions. If Moscow eighty-seven years ago lookedfrom those hills as it looks to-day, his heart, sated as it was withconquest, must have beat high. Through the Troitski Gate ofthe Kremlin he entered next day. In this tiny Byzantine arch-roofed room of the old palace he slept. One day later he climbedthis narrow winding stair to this little balcony to watch Moscowburning. By this Red Staircase he led his glittering Marshalsinto the Palace. In this Church of the Saviour the forage of hiscavalry was stored above the relics of the first Christian martyrin Russia. And from here to the frontier stretches the longnarrow cemetery of his troops. THE TWO MOSCOWS 27 The whole KremHn is wonderfully picturesque. Its broadcastellated brick walls are pierced by deep arched gateways andcrowned by quaint towers whose red sides and green-tiled roofsemerge from masses of foliage. High above all is the tower ofIvan Veliki (an Englishman, by name John Villiers), from which. WOMEN IN THE SUNDAY MAUKb-T, MObCOVV the whole city is spread out before you like the illuminated pageof some old missal. Here is a glimpse of the garden of a mon-astery wdiich once boasted 16,000 servants, pretty red balconiesrunning round a square of embowered walks. A few steps away isthe never-to-be-forgotten Cathedral of the Assumption, in shapeas its original was built six centuries ago, dazzling with gold,frescoed from floor to cupola, claiming upon its highest altar apiece of the Saviours robe, the spot where a man crowns himselfTsar of All the Russias, and, in the eyes and in the profoundestconvictions of a hundred millions of his subjects, rises thereby 2 8 ALL THE RUSSIAS to something of the Divinity he invokes. It is an area of infiniteinterest, and he must be dull indeed who is not brought to astandstill more than once by the pressure of his own reflecti
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