. 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 THE FOX AS A LAW-GIVER. A LIFE FOR THE CZAR. 127 nient. Suspecting their design, he offers to lead them to the spot; theyfollow, and he leads them to the centre of a forest from which theycannot find a way of escape. After getting them there, he announcesthat he has saved the life of the Czar at the sacrifice of his own. The in-vaders kill him on the spot, but the life of the Czar is saved. The story. ONE OF KRILOFF S CHARACTERS. is a true
. 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 THE FOX AS A LAW-GIVER. A LIFE FOR THE CZAR. 127 nient. Suspecting their design, he offers to lead them to the spot; theyfollow, and he leads them to the centre of a forest from which theycannot find a way of escape. After getting them there, he announcesthat he has saved the life of the Czar at the sacrifice of his own. The in-vaders kill him on the spot, but the life of the Czar is saved. The story. 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-
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