Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-13


Gus decoration"
scribed by the French writer, looked
guns were playing upon a desperate
mob, and where, with pistols and hand
grenades. the revolutionists were Civ
ing pitched battle to the well-armed
soidiery.
Within the forbidding walls which
rise just beyond the picturesque
church of vasil Blajennoi is the Aero
polls of Russia, the Krerlin, where
the stored relics and the crown jewels
of tie cars find shelter Ivan H. sur
rounded it with the parapets which
restored and rebuilt H. nia;Ay places
are now being fortified by the govern
ment N oroer to prevent IT'S buildings
within which are the richest treasure
in the --ofld. from being looted by ti',
revclutionists Outside It's gates Is
900 troops were massed bv Governor
General DcIbassoff.
Many Stately Buildings.
The Kremlin is an imposing collec.
ton of buildings, standing upon a fiat.
topped hill that is enveloped by its
tower-fanked walls. 1t is washed on
all sides by the River Volga, and its
outer circumference is nearly a mile
and a half long. Among the stately
edifices grouped together under the
one famous word 'Kremlin' are the
ancient palace of the cars, the palace
of the holy synod, the Church of the
Assumption, where the cZars are
crowned; the Church of the Annun-
citation, in which they are baptized
and married; the Church of ST. Mich
ael, where most of them have been
buried; two monasteries, two bar
racks housing 5000 soldiers, monu-
ment to the memory of Alexander IL,
who freed the serfs; the great bells of
Moscow, now cracked and voiceless;
the tower of Ivan and the national
treasury, in which all relics of the
RcmanOff dynasty are stored.
Gautier compares the Kremlin to
the Alhambra, saying:
1.-THE Kremlin has many points In
common with the A1hambra. Like the
Moorish fortress, it occupies the top
of a hill; it contains royal demesnes,
churches, squares and among the an
cient edifices, a modern palace that is
imbedded in them as unfelicitously as
the palace of Charles ", among the
delicate Arabian architecture, which
it brushes with it's weight. The tower
of Ivan Velizi is in fact by no means
unlike the Tore de la Vela; and be
yond the Kremlin, as beyond the AL
hambra, lies stretched a scene of won
derful beauty, a panorama that the
ravished eye holds ever in enchanted
remembrance.
Oriental in Appearance.
Strange as it may seem, the Krem
lin, as seen from the outside, presents
a more oriental appearance than the
Alhambra itself, with it's massive red
towers that give no hint of the mag
nificence of their interior. Above the
walls, with their sloping battlements
peeping between the towers with Their
carved roofs are myriads of cupolas
like balls of shining gold, with tulip
shaped bell towers rejecting in the
sunshine a thousand colors from their
metallic sides. The wall, white as a
silver basket, incloses this bouquet OF
golden flowers, till one feels as if he
were gazing at one of those fairy
cities built by the fancy of the Arab
ian story teller, a capitalization in
stone of the Thousand and One
Nights And when winter sprinkles
with its diamond powder these build
ings beautiful as a dresm, one could
readily fancy oneself transported to
another planet, for nothing like to ii
has ever been ones fortune to behold
before
The Jewels, silver, gold and relics in
the national treasury within the
Kremlin are claimed to represent an
intrinsic value of s6oo,ooo,ooo.