International studio . the castle270 FROM THE PAINTING BY TOM MOSTVN. •THE GARDEN OF MEMORY. fromrHE OIL PAINTING BY TOM MOSTYN. A. Vasnetsoffs Pictures of Old Moscow P ICTURES OF OLD MOSCOWBY A. VASNETZOFF. 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 mediasval architecture and social life of the oldRussian capital have earned for him a high placeamong the Russian artists of the present some o
International studio . the castle270 FROM THE PAINTING BY TOM MOSTVN. •THE GARDEN OF MEMORY. fromrHE OIL PAINTING BY TOM MOSTYN. A. Vasnetsoffs Pictures of Old Moscow P ICTURES OF OLD MOSCOWBY A. VASNETZOFF. 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 mediasval 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 ofta
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