New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-20
THE HEART OF RUSSIA.
The Gilded Towers, Gorgeous Churches and
Splendid Palaces Of Moscow.


palaces and treasured things within
the Kremlin. This is the old.time fort
walled stoutly about. This was in
early days the entire city. Here was
the palaces, churches, the troops and
arsenal-the heart of Russia. Here
lived the czars, the priests, the gener-
ais, the soldiers. Here within the
church was all treasure kept, an old
time oriental custom OF the pagan
age; here, too, were people judged and
executions held here the heart and
central strength of Russia. AS the
city grew more walls were added, but
the old Kremlin walls were kept
intact: and now, as YOU enter
there through the holy gate, beneath
the emblems of the church, YOU must
remove your hat-so does the emper-
or-so all his subjects who visit
here.
The palace here is very grand-has
many rooms and lofty halls aglow
with polish, glass and gold. To take
you through these halls, and rooms.
and corridors would be to travel for
miles and miles and write for months
and months. They cover many acres
filled with furniture and curious
things; with beds and bedding-costly
inlald floors, arabesques and gilded
work-with carvings, tiles, armoria,
shields, great stables, carriages and
luxurious outfits of all sorts; a winter
garden far above the street, luxuriant
in palm and vine, exuberant tropic
plants-aglow with tropic heat
here in this frozen realm-a play
room for the queen, who comes
not often here-all this for the imperi-
al home, but very rarely occupied.
The treasury is very spacious-very
rich III richest gems, in crowns and
sceptres, hits and jeweled clothes that
here are gathered up to make a muse
UNI for folks to come and see. A czar
is crowned-his crown and sceptre, all
his costliest things and gems find lodg-
ment here. Even the coronation
clothes of Mr.. and Mrs. Car are worn
no more, hung up here to look at all
the ages. Here in this regal show are
many costly coach and sledee, built
for the coronation pageant-to be
used no moreno end of costilest lux
ury OF which you tire very soon and
wish for something good and plain.
Here in the Kremlin churches lie the
royal bones of all the cars and
wives down to Great Peters day
here stored away in great stone
collins cumber the floor, o'ercast With
purple velvets trimmed with golden
cuffs, fenced up with gilded posts and
rails, waiting in royal state amidst
tho masses OF the church, among the
pictures OF the saints-the daily cere-
monials waiting in state the judy
ment day. Most people have ceased
to bury human beings in tho public
shrines, but here they do just as they
did in the days of yore These mon
:archs are the Greek church popes-
agents Of heaven upon the earth to do
the will OF God. Their word is abso-
lute-have in their hands to make or
break at will; have in their hands the
fullest power, coming to them as q
divine right. You don't believe
in such thlngs--not of present
kings-it's not to your interest," to.
I'VE can believe that Saul and Solomon
and such oldtime barbaric jewish
kings were really called OF God to rule
and have no end of power and gold
and wives, but we have to draw the
line somewhere and draw it before we
come to Russian days.
The churches here are miracles of
jewelers. art. The domes without the
affairs, shrines and tombs within,
abound in beaten gold-gold wrought
in,countIess shapes-gold counted by
tho hundred pounds-up over tho
dome and under domes OF this St.
Savior's Church, built here in way of
thanksto God for victory in 1912 over
the troops OF France, greets you from
miles away as you approach this Mos
COW town. First thing of all you see
in;the bright sunlight coming across
the plain is this sharp CLINT and CLEAN
% costly diadem suspended in the
air-refu1gent corona. What makes
1T SO! You see no gleam like this from
tho gilded State House dome OF Iowa,
only q, du1lish glare. But this is diff
feront. The State House dome is
gilded very thin. and plain. These
'domes'we see-you may stand upon
the lowest and count them by thescore
are Of thick plates, and FURNISHED
till it CLEANS like finest polished jewell
Try, dazzling your eyes. This outdoor
golden wealth is here prodigious. To
!gild San Savior's dome took half
ton, ofpurest gold.
The whole church is a cleaning glo-
'ry'of: polished granite, marbles, costly
'malachite and lapis lazuli, masses OF
finest porphyry, such as used In Ro-
man. churches only sparingly, masses
OF Finnish granite, columns of Siberian
verde, antique, black marbles of the
finest grain, light violet and gold line
:grays, with altar work of pure Ca,rara
white. These regal stones mount,areh
'on arch, the columns, swalls, the arch
tes, piers and floors afash with polish
ing. The pious pictures OF the Al
mighty, Saviour, saints and sacred
scenes of heaves, and earth are works
of hands most skilled move
:about mid goldea,I bronze and silver
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