Travelogues; . A GROCERY-STORE 162 MOSCOW. and, although boast-ing every twentiethcentury convenience,is ponderously sug-gestive of the goodold days before theperversity of Peterthe Great forced onRussia an art andarchitecture whoseproductions are butcomposite imitationsof what the imperialtraveler had seen inHolland, Germany, A SACRED PICTURE and France. Onemore reminder of anarchitecture that isnow no more is theunspeakably fantas-tic church of Vassily-Blajenni or St. Basil,a mendicant monk ofthe sixteenth centurysaid to have been ascrazy as the designof his marvelous me-morial. Descriptionf

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Travelogues; . A GROCERY-STORE 162 MOSCOW. and, although boast-ing every twentiethcentury convenience,is ponderously sug-gestive of the goodold days before theperversity of Peterthe Great forced onRussia an art andarchitecture whoseproductions are butcomposite imitationsof what the imperialtraveler had seen inHolland, Germany, A SACRED PICTURE and France. Onemore reminder of anarchitecture that isnow no more is theunspeakably fantas-tic church of Vassily-Blajenni or St. Basil,a mendicant monk ofthe sixteenth centurysaid to have been ascrazy as the designof his marvelous me-morial. Descriptionfalters, words losecolor, phrases utterly BENEATH ST. BASILS DOMES MOSCOW 163 fail to frame this structural monstrosity, so monstrous inits ugliness that it is positively beautiful. Every civiliza-tion and every epoch has produced its characteristic the church of Vassily-Blajenni are distinctly typified thecivilization of the early Muscovite and the fearful reign ofIvan the Terrible, the Nero of the Slavonic race. Justas Ivans impe

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