The international geography . e left bank of the Moskva, and constituting a picturesque pile ofcathedrals, monasteries, palaces and barracks. There rises the tower ofIvan the Great, 266 feet high, and an object of veneration, almost of worshipto the people. Some of the buildings of the royal palace are remarkable intheir architecture, recalling in turn the palaces of Venice and those ofIndia, and presenting a confused congeries of domes, turrets and colon-nades painted vividly in green and red and yellow. Besides the Kremlinthere is another fortified enclosure, that of Kitaigowd, the commercia
The international geography . e left bank of the Moskva, and constituting a picturesque pile ofcathedrals, monasteries, palaces and barracks. There rises the tower ofIvan the Great, 266 feet high, and an object of veneration, almost of worshipto the people. Some of the buildings of the royal palace are remarkable intheir architecture, recalling in turn the palaces of Venice and those ofIndia, and presenting a confused congeries of domes, turrets and colon-nades painted vividly in green and red and yellow. Besides the Kremlinthere is another fortified enclosure, that of Kitaigowd, the commercial citycontaining many remarkable buildings, including the famous church ofBasil the Blessed {Vassili-Blazhennyi) ornamented with tiles and variegatedcolours, the details of its architecture purely Byzantine, but entirelyMuscovite in its general appearance. Since 1755 Moscow has been theseat of the most frequented university in Russia, which has exercisedconsiderable influence on all philosophical and literary movements in the. 414 The International Geography empire, especially between 1830 and 1848. Moscow is a great centre ofpublishing, and the books and prints produced there are carried to themost remote provinces of Russia to be sold or exchanged for the productsof the country. It is one of the chief industrial centres, the manufacturesof the government of Moscow amounting to one-fifth of the whole pro-duction of the empire. Tula is the chief station on the railway between Moscow andKharkov, in the centre of a manufacturing district. Several thousandworkmen are employed in the manufacture of arms in one factory whichproduces 70,000 rifles as well as swords and instruments of iron and steel,Tula is great in making cutlery, mathematical instruments, machinery andmetal work of every kind ; no less than 200,000 of the samovars, of whichevery Russian family possesses one, are turned out each year. Towns of the Volga Basin.—Nizhnii-Novgorod, a town of 100,000inhabitants, is one
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