Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-10-27
4 CITY WITHIN 4 CITY.
INTERESTING TREASURES AND
FEATURES OF MOSCOW.
The krcmlin's Three CathedraiS-
Peculiar Pictures-A RUSSIAN 5
for Horses and Boots

Peculiar Pictures-A Russians
Tondness for Horses and Boots.
Moscow. says a writer in the Detroit
Ere Pres. is a lively, bustling city OF
nearr 1000. coo of people and one
Of tie new and the Old. 1t is a city
within a city, and this latter Is sur
rounded bv a city greater still for
there i the hrcmlIn, with its moat anu
Ii wall. AMI its many towers and gates
At some distance outside of this stands
another wall, pierced by gates here and
there. Viii t further out still IS the greater
part Il the business and residence portion
ot tie cty. Like hone. It IS bullt
IL on seven hills, but here the Likeness
ends. 10 an American, OF course, the
greatest interest centers IN the kremlin,
and ooubtie>s to the Russian. too. for
everything connected with it To him IS
Of Ecmost sacred character. One OF
he main approaches is through The
'rt.edeemcr's cate, so called because
Napoleon cndeavored to destroy 1t IN
VAN. aud the Russians believe that
it WAS the d rect i~nterpos!tion of
Christ himself that drove him back
and saved the 81 aiel. From that day
to this no che, Gar o. peasant, Asiatlc,
European or American, goes through
without un oyering his head.
Inside the >rcmlin are tarcc cathe-
drals; the Cathedral Of the Annuncla-
ton, Where al the Cars are baptlIei,
the cathedral of the Assumption, where
al are crowned. and the Cathedral of
the Archangcl Michael. where alt the
lmDerors We're buried up to the time OF
Peter the Great. These are all, a are
most OF the churches in Moscow, built
in the Moorish style Of architecture and
III st elaborate Y decorated. eCentiy,
in the { hurch of the Assumption, VIII CHI
was being renovated. several very ancient
pIctuIcs were brought to giit on the
walls, and these have been carefully pre-
served. one of them represents several
scenes from the life Of Jonah, and Is
very unique in is way. On one side the
prophet is being thrown overheard from
an exceedingly uckety looking ship.
Then-a creature with big eyes and Il big
mouth and a tail lin all about .lonah's
SIZE IS doing his best to take him ln.'
But the crowning masterpiece of the
whole picture is where Jonah-now safe
On lands bidding the whale goodbye
in the most elaborate and polite Russian
manner
Near by these churches is the Tower
o. Ivan the Great, very lofty and con-
tanning some iifty-two bells, many of
them Of very large size. At the DOT Of
the tower is the ''T>ar kolokoi," or the
King Bell, = the great bell Of Moscow y
of winch we have heard all our lives. 1T
is immense, the e is no doubt Of that! 1t
is twenty fee high and sixty feet in cir
conference, and IS about two feet
through in The til ckest part.
Besides these catfedrals and towers
and this bell, there are also the palace,
the treasury, where are many valuable
c.ownS and ;eweis and other articles of
interest, the ar. email and buildings,
all inside the krcmlin, and forming Il
part Of its wall. But the finest modern
church ia all Russia, and, it is claimed,
in Europe, is the Church Of St. Saw our,
or The New Church," as they call it.
1t was built 10 commemorate the defeat
Of the French IN 1872. and has only
recently been completed. Every archi-
tcct, every builder, every workman and
every artist employed upon it va, a
I Russian. More han forty years con-
tinuous labor, and over 4t.o 90 900 Of
ronbIes, they say. were spent upon it,
and the result is ma Iniicent. 1t is well
worth a journey from St. Petersburg to
Moscow to see this one building alone.
The trcscOes are by ! ussla's W. most
celebrated painter, and will not suffer
by comp trison with any, be they ancient
or modern.
Near by is the Cathedral Of st. Basil.
which was built in 1J5f by Ivan the
Terrible. 1t is a very unique, mosque
Ike looking structure, and the story
goes that Ivan was SC anNouS that no
other should ever he erected like it, that.
as soon as it WAS competed, he destroyed
the plans and pat out the architects
eyeS-a little pleasantry which, it seems,
he often indulgcd In with his friends,
and VIII oh is certainly in Keeping with
his character. But lie need have had no
fears that any one would have copied
his old church, for it i, hidcous in the
extreme.
In Moscow. as we'll as everywhere in
Russia. the horses are very tine and very
fat. They have the build of race horses,
with their slim legs and far reaching
nccks. Even soluc of the dro>klcs have
full blooded horses, and their divers are
able to obtain a fancy prrte for thcirusc.
Horses and cots are tn two things
that russians seem to pride ihensclvcs
~ on. They may not have any stock
ings-and few Of the lower classes wear
them at all-but boots they must and
Will have. Eoo.s with high morocco
tors, ard Worn vi the pantaloons
tucked into the tops, 50 that every inch
shows, and then like the Mexican with
ms spurs. they are dressed. They are a
verE po.ltc people, even down to the
children. | saw one tile fellow in Mos
cow.not over six or eight years old. take
OIL IN, nat TO another toy Of about the
>anie age and thea shake hlnds with
hlm.