. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. e heart of Russia. The old quarter, insidethe walls, known as the Chinese Town —the only Chinese init are a few tea merchants—is packed close with business officesand banks. The streets hum with the steps of hurrying buyersand sellers. At noon the Exchange is crowded with brokers andmerchants, a remarkable proportion of them speaking German,with a sprinkling of Chinese, Persians, and strange faces and head-gear from Turkestan. When you drive out to stand with Napo-leons gho


. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. e heart of Russia. The old quarter, insidethe walls, known as the Chinese Town —the only Chinese init are a few tea merchants—is packed close with business officesand banks. The streets hum with the steps of hurrying buyersand sellers. At noon the Exchange is crowded with brokers andmerchants, a remarkable proportion of them speaking German,with a sprinkling of Chinese, Persians, and strange faces and head-gear from Turkestan. When you drive out to stand with Napo-leons ghost on the hills outside, a walled monastery, brilliant incolour, quaint in architecture, thrilling in story, lies midway be-tween you and the city. By its side is a great factory, with hugedisfiguring chimneys. All around Moscow, at distances varying THE TWO MOSCOWS 29 from two to six hours by train, are great spinning and weavingand cotton-printing mills. Spinning in Russia has advanced withastonishing strides. In 1886 there were already over two millionspindles in the Moscow district, and as many more in other. The Cathedral of St. Basil the Beatified, Moscow—Sixteenth Century. Napoleon ordered his soldiers to destroy that Mosque, but they used it as a cavalry stable instead. places.* From 1880 to 1889 the output of the cotton manu-facturing industry rose from 240 to 487 millions of roubles. Since * An official statement for 1893, the latest I can find, says : At the present timethe number of spindles in Russia may be estimated at 6,000,000, and the number oflooms at 200,000, taking 300 days per annum of ten working hours. 30 ALL THE RUSSIAS then the production has steadily risen, though not of course atthis astonishing rate. The demand for cotton goods is practicallyunlimited, for the entire population of Russia wears it, while newmarkets in Central Asia and the Far East are opening Eastern markets are due to the sagacious character ofRussian foreign poli


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