The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-24

There is also fish soup, which did not taste,
made Of etone.perch; IN fact, taste or two OF
either soup will suffice. Then there are patres
OF isinglasf, mixed up with the flesh of the stur-
geoD, very much hike mullins with 6sh n1d cold
boiled sucking pig, with hOrse-radish sauce;
roast mutton stuffed with buckwheat, with
sailed cucumbers ss salad; plenty OF cayenne
is used with the fish and cabbage. The dessert
of sweet dishes and fruits IS very good. Tue
sherry of the Crimea, the wine of the Caucasus,
the champaene OF the Don, and the raspberry
MADE in St. Petersburg; but their native
brandy, called Vodka, or little water" must
have very depressing effect, as Is frequently
seen in the tottering MOujlk painfully endea-
voring 10 steady the town by holding on TO
post.
Statues of celebrated generals, statesmen,
painters, sculptors, aud authors hll numerous
inches in the walls. Two magnificent stands for
candeabra of tie most violet jasper from Sibe-
Tia, stand at the doors at the church end OF the
galleries. There are immense tables and vases
OF porp hyry and malacni,e, in all ine galleries.
The catalogue gives the number OF pictures as
1885, al selections from the beet painters, an
cient and modern. that the world has produced.
OF the Italian and Spanish ech rols there are dve
hundred, including Murillo, Velssquez, Clald
Lorraine, aud Raphael. In room No. z, IN which
are many OF the works OF Raphael, noticed
beautiful picture, by that great artist, OF 81.
George aud the Dragon, painted, says the record,
in 1907, as a present to Henry VII, OF England.
1t was purchased by the Russian Government,
which has, II seems, bren gathering up all the
celebra ed cole ctlops that have been offered for
sale Tor the past century, as, for instance. the
Walpole collection IN 1879, for $4,000 pounds
s'erllpg, that OF Hougnton Hall and the
Choiseul Gallery, for over one hundred
thousand dolars; the Malmaison collection,
formed by the Empress Josephine, was bought
in 1914 tor 100000 francs. On the death of
Queen Hortense thirty of the best pictures were
bought for the sun OF l80, 600 francs. The cata.
logue mentions the transfer of many other
private collections OF pictures aud frescoes; but
l must stop. 1t would also be difficult to men,
tion in short notice so vast au ssemblage of
gems, engraved stones, and canoe. 1t Is said
to be the largest in existence. l never sup
posed there were as many diamonds in the world
as saw IN room M. &C. There are three rooms
Nos. %. "a, and 25-devoied to numismatIc
collections. These consist of more than l60 900
specimens of corn of the Greek, SlbeuPn, Rus
sIaD, and of distant countries and provinces
now subject to Russia, aud those of Western
Europe. The earl l'est discovered inscription OF
the Russian is called the Stone of Tmutarakau.
whose Prince caused the distance between the
seat OF his sovereignty and Kertch 10 be made
over the ice in lG6S, and recorded on this stone.
Several thousand specimens OF English coin,
dating back to Canute, Ethelred, and HardIca-
mute, as we'll as the Oriental collections from
the time Of the Calphs and tue Khans OF Box
bara, are splendid. The Russians prize the
decoration worn by Schamyl, which we saw in
one OF the cases.