. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. e, as well as in history and religioustradition, Moscow is the 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, andstrange faces and head-gear from T
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. e, as well as in history and religioustradition, Moscow is the 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, andstrange 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 varyingfrom two to six hours by train, are great spinning and weaving THE TWO MOSCOWS 29 and cotton-printing mills. Spinning in Russia has advanced withastonishing strides. In 1886 there were ahcady over two million. THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. BASIL THE BEATIFIED, MOSCOW—SLXTEENTH CENTURY Napolfon ordered his soldiers to destroy that Mosquebut they used it as a cavalry stable instead spindles in the Moscow district, and as many more in otherplaces.* From 1880 to 1889 the output of the cotton manu- * An official statement for 1S93, the latest I can find, says : At the presenttime the number of spindles in Russia may be estimated at 6,000,000, and thenumber of looms at 200,000, taking 300 days per annum of ten working hours. 30 ALL THE RUSSIAS facturing industry rose from 240 to 487 millions of roubles. Sincethen 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 d
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