The literary digest . the ghostly frescoes of the saints measures sevenfeet in length and nearly feet in width. Ln the drum of thedome is an ominous crack. The damage has not even yet been examined in detail byarchitects, and it is not known, therefore, whether such wantondevastation can be repaired. The window glass is everj^vhere smashed or shot through. 84 The Literary Digest for March 8, 1919 Within the cathedral there are strewn about splinters of a six-iur-h shell, which exploded there, and fragments of white stone,brick, and rubble. The gold and silver candelabra, those con-stellat
The literary digest . the ghostly frescoes of the saints measures sevenfeet in length and nearly feet in width. Ln the drum of thedome is an ominous crack. The damage has not even yet been examined in detail byarchitects, and it is not known, therefore, whether such wantondevastation can be repaired. The window glass is everj^vhere smashed or shot through. 84 The Literary Digest for March 8, 1919 Within the cathedral there are strewn about splinters of a six-iur-h shell, which exploded there, and fragments of white stone,brick, and rubble. The gold and silver candelabra, those con-stellations among which all within the church seems to floatthrough space, are bent as by stoi-ni; the altar and the sanctuaryare strewn with broken glass, brick, and dirt; the shrine of theholy martjT, Patriarch Hermogen, is covered with frag-ments of stone and rublile. This is the church built by Fiora-venti of Bologna, in which the Czars were crowned and in whichthe earlier patriarchs were laid to rest. It is the precious. are written over with the most filthy and sacrilegious inscripntions and invectives, not only in Russian, but (more significantof the leadership in all this despoliation) in German. The en-trance of the church where the relics lie was used as an raining destructive shells on the Kremlin, the mad-men evidently decided beforehand not to spare one of thechm-ches; and, in fact, traces of the crime are left on all. Man\ in Russia have washed that the Kremlin gates could beopen that all people not only of Moscow but of all Russiamight see the ruin of their sacred Mill wash awa\ all the unclearmess,Russians ask, by which the Russian barbarismdirected by the enemy has defiled the Krem-lin? The narrator i^roceeds: It is impossible not to recognize that inthe Kremlin are found the history of the art,moral strength, might, greatness, and glory ofthe Russian land. If ancient Moscow is theheart of all Russia, then the altar of this heartis the Kremli
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