Travelogues; . e begunits clatter, before His Majesty, with an informal gesture,declares the ceremony at an end, and to my delight ridesdirectly toward me, and his staf^, falling in from both sides,follow him off the field. Any shakiness in the picture is dueto the fact that I was at one and the same time holding asilk hat under one arm, clasping a black box to my breast, ST. PETERSBURG 105 which naturally was heaving with excitement, and trying tolook utterly unconcerned while the Autocrat of all the Rus-sias and the great men of his Empire hied past, envelopingme in clouds of dust. That my a
Travelogues; . e begunits clatter, before His Majesty, with an informal gesture,declares the ceremony at an end, and to my delight ridesdirectly toward me, and his staf^, falling in from both sides,follow him off the field. Any shakiness in the picture is dueto the fact that I was at one and the same time holding asilk hat under one arm, clasping a black box to my breast, ST. PETERSBURG 105 which naturally was heaving with excitement, and trying tolook utterly unconcerned while the Autocrat of all the Rus-sias and the great men of his Empire hied past, envelopingme in clouds of dust. That my attitude was undignified Igrant you, but it was justified by the result. For hours after the review the streets and squares ofPetersburg are alive with crowds and marching troops, orblocked by halted squadrons. But on the morrow Peters-burg becomes once more the city of magnificent spacious-ness, seemingly the broadest city in the world. Its streetsare broad, its squares enormous, its river wide as a little By Hahn THE CAVALRY CHARGE its palaces long, low, and vast. But high above this broadand widespread city rises the dome of the Cathedral of , symbolic of the national religious spirit ; for, save afew notable exceptions, the Russians as a people are, youremember, habitually, nay, almost unconsciously Isaac s is one of the wonder churches of the world. Uponfour sides are porticos of pillars, each pillar a monolith ofFinland granite fifty-five feet high The interior is unspeak-ably magnificent,— its walls of lapis-lazuli and malachite, itsicons and iconostasis of silver and of gold, of incalculablecost, and of unquestioned sanctity. io6 ST. PETERSBURG
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