. 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 ONE OF KRILOFF S CHARACTERS. is a true one, and to this day the people of the village where the loyalpeasant, Ivan Soussanin, lived, are exempt from taxes, and a monument hasbeen erected to the memory of the man. The opera which chronicles his 128 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. devotion is given in three acts, and its melodies are all strictly friends were delighted Mith the performance, and both Frank andFred declar
. 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 ONE OF KRILOFF S CHARACTERS. is a true one, and to this day the people of the village where the loyalpeasant, Ivan Soussanin, lived, are exempt from taxes, and a monument hasbeen erected to the memory of the man. The opera which chronicles his 128 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. devotion is given in three acts, and its melodies are all strictly friends were delighted Mith the performance, and both Frank andFred declared that for days afterwards several of the airs in ^?Jizn zaTsarya were literally running through their heads. Another evening they went to one of the cheaj^er theatres, where Rus-sian comedies and farces were given. Of course they could not under-. CLOSING SCENE IN A RUSSIAN PLAT. stand the dialogue, but were quite interested in the action of the piece,which was decidedly vigorous. Fred said he was reminded of certain localdramas in New York, wliere the actors receive a great deal of poundingand rough handling, and Frank thought a good actor in liusiia ought tohave the flexibility and agility of a circus performer. A EUSSIAN COMEDY. 129 As a type of the plays that amuse the lower order of Russians, thefollowing is a fair representation : A niujik makes love to his masters maid-servant, much against the oldgentlemans will. One day the master enters the kitchen and finds themujik there. The whole family is called, the bull-dog is let loose uponthe lover and seizes him by the coat, while all the members of the house-hold proceed to pound himwith saucepans, broomsticks,tongs, and other utensils thatcan be used for hostile pur-poses. Round and round goesthe frightened mujik. Thedog clings to the mujikscoat, the master seizes thedog b
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