. 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 eried one of the youths. So it is said, by many who have studied its position. They aver that EFFECTS OF THE INUNDATION. 73 when a high tide, a westerly wind, and the breaking up of the ice in LakeLadoga shall all come together, the streets of St. Petersburg will be notless than twenty feet under water, and Russia will be obliged to select an-other site for her capital. But as it is not likely that all these things willhappen during our vis
. 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 eried one of the youths. So it is said, by many who have studied its position. They aver that EFFECTS OF THE INUNDATION. 73 when a high tide, a westerly wind, and the breaking up of the ice in LakeLadoga shall all come together, the streets of St. Petersburg will be notless than twenty feet under water, and Russia will be obliged to select an-other site for her capital. But as it is not likely that all these things willhappen during our visit, we wont borrow any trouble about the matter. I have read, said Fred, that in that inundation the prisoners inthe fort were drowned in their cells. The lower part of the fort wasHooded, was it not ? Yes, the Doctor answered; but so many romances have beenwritten on the subject that it is difficult to get at the exact truth. It isvery likely that the prisoners in the lower cells of the fort were drowned,and I believe the authorities admit that such was the case. In the ParisExhibition of 1867 there was a startling picture representing the death of. STATUE OF PETf:R THK GREAT. a Russian princess who was imprisoned there at the time. She is repre-sented standing on her little bed surrounded by rats that have beendriven from their holes by the flood. The water is nearly up to the levelof the bed, and is pouring in at the grated window. The picture haunted 74: THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. me for years after I saw it, and even now it occasionally comes up in mydreams. I havent thought of it for some time, but this question of yourshas revived it. They continued their walk towards the Neva, with an occasional glanceat the needle-like spire that rises above the Admiralty buildings. Theycame out into Admiralty Square, a large open space, which gave them aview of the Admiralty buildings, the Church of St. Isaac, the equestrianstatue of Peter the Great, and the Winter Pala
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