. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. THE TWO MOSCOWS, AND A FEW REFLECTIONS ST. PETERSBURG might be anywhere, and without turn-ing ones self into a guide-book (precisely what I wishto avoid) there is hardly anything in it to describe. My impres-sions of it have onlycovered a few pages;but it would be easyto write a volumeabout Moscow. Hereis Russia indeed—every side of her faith-fully represented. Themagnificent white rail-way station, withGod save the Tsarin permanent gas-let-ters over the portal, iswhere the G
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. THE TWO MOSCOWS, AND A FEW REFLECTIONS ST. PETERSBURG might be anywhere, and without turn-ing ones self into a guide-book (precisely what I wishto avoid) there is hardly anything in it to describe. My impres-sions of it have onlycovered a few pages;but it would be easyto write a volumeabout Moscow. Hereis Russia indeed—every side of her faith-fully represented. Themagnificent white rail-way station, withGod save the Tsarin permanent gas-let-ters over the portal, iswhere the Great Si-berian train startsfor Vladivostok andPort Arthur. Thesestrange, dark-robed men, sitting by themselves at the bourse, turbaned or fur-hatted,are Russian subjects from Central Asia. Russia is a great manu-facturing country now; Moscow is one of the manufacturingcities of the world. Napoleon looms large in Russian history:from those low hills a few miles away he looked down upon thesplendid prey he was about to seize; through this gate he entered. ?-? -fgfr^d^m-il
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