Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-10
IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES.
, Utah rourist Takes In the sight. Of
Moscow House. Of Worship. Palaces.
ne-r oirisns and variety rhsstsrs-
Ordering Meals by Means OF Drawings
Various incidents.
MaIeow. .he clty 81 churehe..

Moscow. the City Of Churches.
Angus, Is. 1895.
Churches 10 the right " me. churshes
10 she LEFT o. me. churches IN front of
me. and churches behind me. In what.
ever part % the city you are Ia,
churches Loom up on an sides % you.
I arrived In Moscow about II pm, and
a. street lamps arr no; fouul In Rus
sian cities. had 10 walt until morning
Tor my IRE, impression OF Moscow. Il
happened 90 be sunday. I tad Just
d3zsd on. u seemed. wten was avalo-
sned with a thousand bells ringing Ia
my ears I Thought I; must be a fire
a. iinst. Bui remembering that the
Russian church service commenced a,
four In the mornlng, ! 1ozed On again
after uslnr an che say5ry language l
could thiRk Of. n ever Satan had a
spot In a church {, Is Ia the bells. They
cause more swearing fhan any other
Instrument 81 torture IN existence, os-
peolally az four ln the morning. such
was my frH; awakening In MOSCOW
The cisy Il situated on the banks of ihe
river Moskva. IL Is said TO have more
crooked streets than any other city Ia
tho world, There IL very little u the
Old city lei, since She IRE In 1919. when
IA flames e1er,ed 10 fatal an influence
over the des,inles o. ihs first Napoleon.
But like a Ph0.n nix. Moscow has Risen
from her ashes. larger and more beau
tlgul than before. In the heart OF the
eisy sands the Kremlln, celebrated she
world over. and the main part of Inter
est Ia the Old city. II suffered more
from she mines she French sprung ug-
der ne walls than y did from the trc.
Il has been completely repaired since,
and now Sands an Immense fort-llke
spot crowned Wlih churches and pail
aces OF the lld Tartar style. Thsr@ are
towers 81 every style. round, squnrc.
and with pointed roofs; belfrles, dom
wasch towers, walls pierced with loop
holes, ramplris, forilicatlans OF all
kinds. And every imaginable stCcplc,
% every height, color and shape, the
whole formlng most Agreeable pie
tuTe 10 look on from a distance. With
Ia the walls u the kremlln on a ped
estal sits the King VI bells weighing
100000 pounds. "A feet high and q In
circumference. 10 once hung In a large
tower but the tower burned down.
burrylng Inc bell "a the earln, also
breaking u. The palaces and churches
here are very coatly in their nS,ures.
one Bible ln 81. Mlchaels costing ~
100000. The covers ate a solid mass OF
precious stones In churches whore a
saint Is Inferred they generally leave
portion % che pnakgs open, covering IL
with robe, ltIVing small hole over
the forehead. 90 mat worahlpers may
kiss him. They look proty greasy
and you wonder how people can kiss
them, spreading all manner ~ diseases
from the contact OF % many lips
There "a one gate leading into the
krcmlln where every one has 60 raise
his hat 10 walk through. over I.
hangs a picture VI Christ, In which the
russians put Erea. deal OF faith.
There 10 tradition attached 10 q. The
French trild 20 move the picture.
thinking she frame % solid gold.
But every ladder they placed against
ehe wall ten, broke In two. one OF the
powder trains was placed beneath this
gate. IL split ihe wall up 10 the pic