Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-15
IN THE KREMLIN.

al beauties, and art has richly done its
part in the way of cathedrals, churches,
monasteries and buildings and monu-
mentS.
Among the many wonders of the
kremlin are the Tower OF Ivan the
Great: the national treasury, contain
ing the fabulous treasures of the Roman
offs; the noted great bell of Moscow,
emperor of Bells; a monument to AL
exan'ler H., the car that liberated the
serfs: two monasterles, two barracks
which shelter 5000 soldiers, the an
Gent palace of the cars, the church in
which the cars must be crowned
Church of the Assumption, the one i'll
which they are baptized and where they
are married (Church of St. Michael) ,
and the palace of the holy synod.
Moscow holds jealously to it's ancient
rights. and it continues the official cap
:tal, though not the center of court life.
The cars palace in the Kremlin is ever
kept in READINGS for him, and is as splen-
did royal residence as is to be found
in the world. The magnifcence that
marks the palaces and historic struc-
lures Of Moscow is almost barbarous in
character, breathes of oriental display.
And, to carry out the oriental figure,
splendor and squalor stand here shout
der to shoulder. From the promiscu-
Gus mingling in the same locality of pal
aces and huts, imposing and unassum-
ing places of worship, stately public
buildings and modest private residences,
Moscow has been fifty described as being
at once beautiful and rich, grotesque and
absurd, magnificent and mean"
On first entrance into Moscow the
traveller may judge the city collection
Of low houses bordering filthy streets,
peopled with men and women of scarce
ly average intelligence. He stays awhile
and goes about; he finds wonderful pal
aces, great university, signs of fabu-
lous wealth; an ancient wealth, an an
cient civilization; his first impression is
materially changed.
Moscow was founded back in the
Twelfth century, and as capital became
q place of importance politically and
commercially. Lithunians and Tartars
came down upon it in the fourteenth
century, and in the two centuries sue
ceeding 1t suffered many vicissitudes.
The Tartars set 1t on fire in 1871, and
later he Poles and Cossacks worked
much havoc in the Holy City"-for
thus the people call it to this day. the
holy city or white mother city. We re-
member the story of Napoleon's en-
trance into Morrow (1812), his selection
Of the Kremlin rs his place of residence,
and of the daring means used to deprive
the French of t:4e cherished cit, The
governor of the city, Count Rostop,sch-
in, ordered that Moscow be set on fro
rather than that the enemy should hold
it,; and this was done. Napoleon was
forced to leave, but Moscow was almost
entirely destroyed.
In short space Of time new city
arose from the ashes. and its central To-
cation, the fact OF its being the depot OF
trade for a great surrounding region,
quickly restored the city to its place as
commercial emporium of central Rus
yia and western ASIA"
Moscow has been the favor1te place OF
residence of the old nobility, who never
sympathized with that despOtic ruler
that removed the court from central
Russia way of to the coast. In Peters
time they demuryUd against r01noval to