. Real Russians . ameto the quay, and to those few elegant streets whichare paved with wood blocks, that we thoroughlyenjoyed the smooth and swift motion of the car. The Nevski Prospect, Petrograds chief thorough-fare, was being repaired in various places. I quotedto my hostess a remark by Bismarck : The inhabitantsof Petrograd are very proud of their wood pavement,and yet they are really never able to enjoy it; forin winter it is covered with snow, and in summer it isup for repair. He was really not far wrong. Climate in Russiaconstitutes one great difficulty in getting good roads—economy ano
. Real Russians . ameto the quay, and to those few elegant streets whichare paved with wood blocks, that we thoroughlyenjoyed the smooth and swift motion of the car. The Nevski Prospect, Petrograds chief thorough-fare, was being repaired in various places. I quotedto my hostess a remark by Bismarck : The inhabitantsof Petrograd are very proud of their wood pavement,and yet they are really never able to enjoy it; forin winter it is covered with snow, and in summer it isup for repair. He was really not far wrong. Climate in Russiaconstitutes one great difficulty in getting good roads—economy another. CHAPTER Visit to the Troitsa-Sergei Lavra. It was a hot June day, and a large family party wascrowded into the same compartment as soon entered into conversation, and discovered thatthe two ladies, the little girl, the two young men andtwo boys were all bound to the same destination as wewere—namely, the famous Troitsa-Sergei Lavra. The little girl looked so white and tired, but she was. St. Sergei Radonejski. [By Nesteror. Face p. 42. VISIT TO TROITSA-SERGEI LAVRA. 43 quite as zealous a ** bogomolka, or pilgrim, as wereher elders. She wants to pray for her father who is out at thefront, remarked her mother, gently stroking herlittle maidens hair, as she lay on her lap. We oftenfind her on her knees, praying for her father. At the last station before Troitsa, crowds of peopleleft the train in order to proceed on foot to the neigh-bouring monastery, in which the parents of the greatsaint, Sergei Radonejski, the founder of the TroitsaMonastery, lay buried. A few very ramshackle old droshki stood outside thestation ; both horses and drivers teemed to belong tothe remote past. One of these derelicts drove us to thehostel of the monastery, and all along the path wepassed streams of pilgrims, mostly peasants orworking people, also people of the lower middle class,all garbed in their very best. Most of the women weredressed in sombre colours, and wore black
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