. 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 eirhands. According to some writers thisbelief is erroneous. They assertthat, originally, all of Moscow wasinside the Kremlin; but as thenecessity came for extending thecity, an order was given by Helena(mother of John the Terrible, and Regent during his minority) for enclosing a large space outside the Krem-lin, which was to be named after her birthplace, Kitaigrod, in walls were begun in 1535 by an Italian architect, We went,
. 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 eirhands. According to some writers thisbelief is erroneous. They assertthat, originally, all of Moscow wasinside the Kremlin; but as thenecessity came for extending thecity, an order was given by Helena(mother of John the Terrible, and Regent during his minority) for enclosing a large space outside the Krem-lin, which was to be named after her birthplace, Kitaigrod, in walls were begun in 1535 by an Italian architect, We went, said Frank, through the Gostinna Dvor of Moscow,which fills an enormous building in the Kitai Gorod, and is in some re-spects more interesting than that of St. Petersburg, though practically ofthe same character. The display of Russian goods is about like that inthe capital city, though there is possibly a greater quantity of silver work,Circassian goods, and similar curiosities peculiar to the country. Muchof the money-changing is in the hands of Tartars ; where the changersare not of the Tartar race, they are generally Jews. Russian Tartars and IT. MININ-POJARSKY MONUMEiNT. 258 THE BOY TRAVELLEES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Jews use the aJxicus in counting, and tliey work it with wonderful rapid-ity. We saw it in St. Petersburg, but it was not so much employed thereas in Moscow. The abacus has undergone very little change in two orthree thousand years. It was introduced by the Tartar conquerors ofRussia, and promises to remain permanently in the Empire. What a quantity of silks, embroideries, silverware, and the like arepiled in the bazaar! and what an array of clothing, household goods, furni-ture, and other practical and unpractical things of every name and kind !It was the Bazaar of St. Petersburg over again, with the absence of certainfeatures, that suggested Western Europe and the addition of others be-longing to the Orient. The second-hand market was encumbeied with
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