. 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 EMPRESS ANNE. FLAGS AND CORONATION CHAIRS. 243 and weapons of all times and forms can be seen here. There are fadedand tattered flags that tell of the glorj of Russia; here is the flag carriedby the soldiers of John the Terrible at the capture of Kazan; the flagunder which Yerraak conquered Siberia and added it to the Russian Em-pire ; the flag which a little band of Cossacks carried to the shores of thePacific Ocean more than two hundred y
. 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 EMPRESS ANNE. FLAGS AND CORONATION CHAIRS. 243 and weapons of all times and forms can be seen here. There are fadedand tattered flags that tell of the glorj of Russia; here is the flag carriedby the soldiers of John the Terrible at the capture of Kazan; the flagunder which Yerraak conquered Siberia and added it to the Russian Em-pire ; the flag which a little band of Cossacks carried to the shores of thePacific Ocean more than two hundred years ago; and here are the flagswhich belonged to the Regiment of Streltsi, which rebelled against Peterthe Great. Here are thrones and coronation chairs in goodly number. The firstis that of the Empress Elizabeth, and near it are the coronation chairs of. THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. Paul I. and Alexander II. In the centre of the room where these chairsare standing is the haldachino, under which the Emperor and Empresswalk at their coronation, and at the farther end is a stand of colors givenby Alexander I. to his Polish regiment, and afterwards captured at thestorming of Warsaw, in 1831. The royal throne of Poland is in anotherroom, along with the throne of Kazan, which is studded with pearls, dia-monds, rubies, and turquoises, as are several other thrones. One throne 244 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. contains over eight liundred diamonds and twice as manj rubies, and it isby no means tlie most costly one in the collection. Near the thrones arethe coronation robes worn by several of the emperors and empresses, andthere is also a masquerade dress which belonged to Catherine the Great, We lingered over a glass case containing the decoration of the Orderof the Garter and its diploma, which Queen Elizabeth sent to John theTerrible.
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