. 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 etersburg toTsarskoe-Selo, and was built in 1838. The St. Petersburg and MoscowRailway was begun in 1848, and down to the end of the reign of Xicholasless than three thousand miles of railway were completed in the wholeEmpire. Now there are nearly twenty thousand miles in operation, andthe figures are increasing every year. Nearly fourteen thousand miles be-long to private companies, and the remainder is the property of the Gov-ernment. Som
. 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 etersburg toTsarskoe-Selo, and was built in 1838. The St. Petersburg and MoscowRailway was begun in 1848, and down to the end of the reign of Xicholasless than three thousand miles of railway were completed in the wholeEmpire. Now there are nearly twenty thousand miles in operation, andthe figures are increasing every year. Nearly fourteen thousand miles be-long to private companies, and the remainder is the property of the Gov-ernment. Some of the companies have a Government guarantee for theinterest on their capital, while others are managed just like private rail-ways in other countries. ARRIVAL AT MOSCOW. 229 At the last station before reaching Moscow passports were surrenderedto the inspectors, and tickets were collected. The youths put their hand-bags and shawl-straps in readiness, and were ready to leave the carriagewhen the train rolled into the huge building which is the terminal stationof the line. Our friends were in the ancient capital of Russia, and thehome of many PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE II. IN THE KREMLIN COLLECTION, 230 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. CHAPTER XII. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MOSCOW.—UNDULATIONS OF THE GROUND.—IRREGULAR-ITY OF THE BUILDINGS, AND THE CAUSE THEREOF.—NAPOLEONS CAMPAIGN INRUSSIA.—DISASTER AND RETREAT.—THE BURNING OF MOSCOW.—THE KREM-LIN: ITS CHURCHES, TREASURES, AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.—ANECDOTESOF RUSSIAN LIFE.—THE CHURCH OF ST. BASIL. FROM the railway-station tlie party went to a hotel which had beenrecommended as centrally situated and fairly well kept, hnt Frankand Fred said they should be cautious about praising it for fear that thosewho came after them might be disappointed. The hotels of Moscow arehardly equal to those of St. Petersburg. As the latter is the capital ofthe Empire, it naturally has a greater demand for hostelries of th
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