The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-24
IA. nory CIT, of Ru..I..

city by train, and drives to bis hotel
through suburbs which are unfnterest-
ing and monotonous; the streets are
dirty, the drainage bad, and the place
tul Of vile odors, suggestive of cholera
to those who pay their visit in July.
The atmosphere is q great contrast to
the pure, crisp air Of st. Petersburg;
but In neither city is the water DIT for
drinking.
Nearly all the beauty Of the place is
centered In Kremlin, writes a Moscow
correspondent but three or four hun
bred churches are scattered throughout
the city, and their domes, when not
gilded, are ornamented and painted In
bright colors; richness Of colorlng Is one
OF the charms Of the place, In which
respect 1t rivals Venice.
One of the drives Was owe the turn
pike road by which the Freuch army
entered Moscow; turning aside 10 Spar
J rowhill, their one elevation, we saw the
glittering city from the place where the
monarch general viewed his prize, be-
fore his bitter disappointment. How
be looked for the expected attack, and
seeing no sign of that, waited for the
surrender of the city; then the puzzled
| Emperor made his n0n-Obstructed. en-
trance into the deserted place. lie saw
from every oil-shop and intiamable place
the fires break forth, which. rs the en-
! gines had been removed and the prison.
ers liberated to a the flames, ragged
for three days, leaving little OF the city
beside the kremlin, which the French
army fortunately succeeded in preserv-
ing. Their precious relics, and the
enormous wealth of their churches.
investments and precious stones, were
| all preserved; dozens of wagons carrie
them away to be hidden until the Time
of peace.
The KremlIn 1.-THE origin of the name
is uncertainty stands IN the midst OF the
| city; a wall surrounds 1t with towers
| and high corner turrets; its shape is
| triangular, two of the sides being each
a mile in length; within the walls stand
the winter palaca, the tower of Ivan,
the treasury, churches, inconsistencies,
and other buildings pertaining to church
! and state. A staircase outside the
palace is shown as the one which Napo-
leon mounted for his short and disap-
| pointing possession, and down the same
steps, generations previous, an enraged
people threw the false Demetrlus, the
usurper and murderer of the true en-
peror, one Of the tragedies in which
| their history abounds.
We passed through many large and
| elegant state apartments In this beautt-
full palace, which were brilliant with
| gliding and rich marble, but when we
| reached the old palt, built by Catherine
1 FV g.-ol fha ewnal1o. rnxRfno tho
most interesting; the walls and ceilings
are frescoed in arabeque patterns and
soft Oriental tints, and the rooms, like
ali the apartments of that talented EN-
press, have an attractive and homelike
appearance. Here we saw rare specl-
mems of old embroidery, and a book
Illuminated and printed by Sophia, the
| sister of Peter the Great. Talent and
industry seem to have been the charac-
teristics of all the family.
One can not be a day in Moscow with
out realizing that he Is In a holy city;
he meets groups OF pilgrims In the
| streets, carrying their bundles over
their shoulders-not the pilgrims clad
In gay shawls and with bright kerchiefs
that we see in Italy; these ara way worn
travellers, their clothes the color OF the
dust. In the churches they fairly Inn
pede ones progress; men and women OF
| all ages bow down with their foreheads
to the ground to every picture and
| shrine. and each has to be kissed, while
the pilgrim crosses himself many times
before every sacred object. One stands
back at FIRST, to make way for o much
| religious zeal, but soon concludes thai
each must have his turn, so closely 90
the pilgrims follow one another; they
seem utterly absorbed, and go through
the prescribed forms apparently nncon.
scious of the presence OF other. In all
| the chuI ches there are tOmbs containing
the bodies of holy men, and a little spot
on the forehead Is left bare for the pill
Vrims to kiss; the kiss is given TO each
SAINT with the deepest reverence, and
also to each of the valuable, OF rather
invaluable, relics, such as q hnger or
st. Andrew, adrop Of the blood OF John
the Baptist, pieces from the cross n
one of the nails.
The church of st. Michael, the Arch
angel contains the tomps of all the N
perors up to the time of Peter the
Great: then patriarchs governed the
Russian church, but for the last $50
| years the title has been changed for
that of metropolitan bishop. In the
body Of the church lies the tomb or the
Patriarch Philip, whom the emperor.
John the Terrible, sent into Punishment
because be reproached him for his
many sins; the little dark spot left bare
on the forehead of this patriarch has
ever since been kissed by I'll tile empe-
rors at the time OF their coronation. In
! n side room containing most OF the
tombs lies John the Terrible, and by his
side a son whom be murdered; the most
costly among all the magnificent robes
In the p~atriarclai treasury Is the one
given by this emperor to the Patriarch
Philip as an expiatory Offering for the
| murder of his son. the robe Is literally
covered with pearls, diamonds, and pre-
| cious stones, making Its weight to be
| sixty.four pounds. 1t IS amusing to
remember that the emperor made an
| offer Of marriage to Elizabath OF Eng
land. She handed over Tic ''i1er TO one
! of her court ladies', who wisely conclu-
ded that d good home. With peace, was
worth more than an r'upire under the
| offered conditions. Each ia' riarch had
his own robe, also his r0wh II baton,
and Nil we're loaded with Jewels. ! did
not know there were re many gems out
of the mountains OF peasls out OF the
sea. These robes are of cioih or gold,
ornameuted with figures Of apostles and
saints traced IN pearls and precious
stones. and sometimes velvet TRIM
mings forms a background to show
more ,erfectly the beauty of the jewels.