Russia in 1839 -Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia

FIRST VIEW OF MOSCOW.283

FIRST VIEW OF MOSCOWSYMBOLIC ARCHITECTURE OF GREEK

CHURCHES.CASTLE OF PETROWSKI. ENTRANCE TO MOSCOW.

ASPECT OF THE KREMLIN.CHURCH OF SAINT BASIL.THE

FRENCH AT MOSCOW. ANECDOTE RELATIVE TO THE FRENCH IN

RUSSIA. —BATTLE OF MOSKOWA. THE KREMLIN A CITY.

ORIGIN OF THE WORD CZAR.AN ENGLISH HOTEL IN RUSSIA.

THE CITY BY MOONLIGHT. POPULATION OF MOSCOW. THE

OBJECT OF CONSCIENCE. GARDENS UNDER THE WALLS OF THE

KREMLIN.DESCRIPTION OF THE FORTRESS.IVAN III. NA

POLEON AND THE KREMLIN.MODERN GRANDILOQUENCE.

Does the reader never remember having perceived, when approaching by land some sea-port town in the Bay of Biscay or the British Channel, the masts of a fleet rising behind downs, just elevated enough to conceal the town, the piers, the flat shore, and the sea itself beyond ? Above the natural rampart nothing-can be discovered but a forest of poles bearing sails of a dazzling white, yards, many-coloured flags, and floating streamers. A fleet, apparently on land — such is the apparition with which my eye has been sometimes surprised in Holland, and once in England, after having penetrated into the interior of the country between Gravesend and the mouth of the Thames. Exactly similar is the effect that has been produced upon me by the first view of Moscow : a multitude of spires gleamed alone above the dust of the road, the undulations of the soil, and the misty line that nearly always clothes the distance, under the summer sun of these parts.