. 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 of it were not harmed. As the occurrencewas considered in the light of a mii-acle, an inscription describing it wasplaced there by Alexander I. x^nother gate, called the T/oitsLa, or Trinity, is memorable as the oneby which the French entered and left the Kremlin in 1812. Several timesit has been the passage-way of conquering armies. Besides the French inthe nineteenth century, it admitted the Poles in the seventeenth, the Tartarsin the six
. 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 of it were not harmed. As the occurrencewas considered in the light of a mii-acle, an inscription describing it wasplaced there by Alexander I. x^nother gate, called the T/oitsLa, or Trinity, is memorable as the oneby which the French entered and left the Kremlin in 1812. Several timesit has been the passage-way of conquering armies. Besides the French inthe nineteenth century, it admitted the Poles in the seventeenth, the Tartarsin the sixteenth (1551), and the Lithuanians in the fourteenth a small part of the Kremlin was destroyed in the great fire of 1812;it was held by Napoleons troops when the fire broke out, and when theinvaders retired their attempts to blow up the walls and ignite the build-ings did not succeed. 238 THE BOY TEAVELLEKS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. After looking at the exterior of the walls and admiring the pictur-esque situation of the Kremlin, we passed through the gate, and went atonce to the tower of Ivan Yeliki (John the Great). We had been advised. A PRISONER OKDKUKD TO KXKCUTIOX. to see this tower first of all, as it was the best point from Mhich to obtaina general view of the city. There is some doubt as to the antiquity of the tower, but it is gener-ally believed to date from the year 1600, and to have been built by BorisGodounoff. It is in five stories, of which the upper is in the form of acylinder, while the others are octagonal in shape. The top is two hundredand seventy feet from the ground, and is reached by a winding stair-way. The guide called our attention to the bells in the tower; there are noless than thirty-four of them, and some are very large. In the second storyhangs a bell known as the Assunq^tion, which weighs sixty-four tons; itis therefore four times as heavy as the great bell of Kouen, five times thatof Erfurt, and eight times as heavy as the (xreat To
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