. Studio international . •the castle 270 FROM THE IAINTINC BY TOM MOSTYN. THE GARDEN OF MEMORY. from HE OIL PAINTING EY TOM MOSTYN. A. Vasnetzoff s Pictures of Old Moscow P ICTURES OF OLDBY A. VASNETZOFF. MOSCOW The pictures of which reproductions arehere given have been selected from a series on whichthe painter Professor Apollinarius MikhailovitchVasnetzoff has been engaged for some years past,and which by their vivid and truthful portrayal ofthe mediaeval architecture and social life of the oldRussian capital have earned for him a high placeamong the Russian artists of the present so
. Studio international . •the castle 270 FROM THE IAINTINC BY TOM MOSTYN. THE GARDEN OF MEMORY. from HE OIL PAINTING EY TOM MOSTYN. A. Vasnetzoff s Pictures of Old Moscow P ICTURES OF OLDBY A. VASNETZOFF. MOSCOW The pictures of which reproductions arehere given have been selected from a series on whichthe painter Professor Apollinarius MikhailovitchVasnetzoff has been engaged for some years past,and which by their vivid and truthful portrayal ofthe mediaeval architecture and social life of the oldRussian capital have earned for him a high placeamong the Russian artists of the present some of these pictures we see the city asit was about the close of the sixteenth century, thedays when the ruler of Russia was that cruell,bloudye, and merciless monarch, Ivan IV., whosename is always coupled with the appellation ofthe Terrible. In those days, as for long yearsafterwards, most of the houses of Russia werebuilt of wood, the great inconvenience of which>in the words of a contemporary English writer, was the aptnes for firing, which happeneth very oftand
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