. 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 ._^./^>r, i PITY THE POOU. ages are covered with pearls and ]:)recious stones in great profusion. Insome cases they are so thickly s])read that the metal can hardly be seen. In the Church of the Assumption is a two-headed eagle, which com-memorates the concealment of Peter the Great under the altar during theinsurrection of the streltzi. They showed us a well that Avas dug by St. CURIOSITIES OF THE TROITSKA COLLECTION. 275 Sergius, and d
. 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 ._^./^>r, i PITY THE POOU. ages are covered with pearls and ]:)recious stones in great profusion. Insome cases they are so thickly s])read that the metal can hardly be seen. In the Church of the Assumption is a two-headed eagle, which com-memorates the concealment of Peter the Great under the altar during theinsurrection of the streltzi. They showed us a well that Avas dug by St. CURIOSITIES OF THE TROITSKA COLLECTION. 275 Sergius, and discovered after its locality had been unknown for nearlythree hundred years, JSTear the church is a tower two hundred and nine-ty feet high, and containing several bells, one of them weighing sixty-fivetons. Russia is certainly the country of gigantic bells. A description of all the churches at Troitska would be tedious, es-pecially as we have spoken of the two of greatest interest. The sacristyis in a detached building, and contains more curiosities than I could de-scribe in a dozen pages. There are mitres, crowns, crosses, and other orna-ments tha
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