The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-30

is verftable Arabian Nights pAla1~
while its harem=IIke quarters for til
CzarinAs recall the Asiatic origin OF tn
empire.
NapoIeOn ut the KremlIn-
The faithful in their pflgrtmaee to I'd
Kremlin meet with many menentoeS d
Its invasion to tempt them away from
the Christian principle Of forgfyenesal
The Russian. however, seems to be tn1
nocent Of any petty spite toward Me-
poleon's memory. Try TO imagine thd
Americans settling up IN their capital 9
Washington in 1874! Yet almost the nrsa
object that rises TO the view Of the Visi4
tor 70 the treasury or the museum q the
kkremln Is grest marble statue Of "
q service Of Sevres. which he made to
the Gar In the days Of their fraterntx1ngI
Is also cherished there among the pre-
ciqus keepsakes of the nation Appar1
entity Alexander did not send his pres
ents back when they quarreled!
| Professions Of school children, the boys
| IN high Russian boots and the girls m
their ooytsh Fedora hats. stream through
the Kremlin streets and through tho
atsles Of the treasury. where they seS
| the great foe OF Russia enshrined arnona
company them. no doubt take care 10
remind the youth Of their text book
version Of the mans career. For
| the Russian historian cares not who
makes history. IL he can only write II.
Thus Napoleon is lightly dismissed In thu
| school books as merely q successful mar
shal Of the good King Louis XVI Of
France-Louis XVI, after a long and
| glorious reign, having died suddenly OF
| apoplexy. II seems, however that this
Marshal Bonaparte dared rebel against
| his King. Then the Gar Alexander /,
| stepped in and the disloyal soldier was
| strspped OF his honors. deprived Of all
CLAIMS to pension and banished to St
| That the wicked rebel against his zoo6
J King lost everything as a penalty Tor
| his disobedience, the boys and girls NAV
| see Tor Themselves in the Krennlin Mu-
scum Is his sleigh not there brought
1 IN by the trusty CoSSacks, who captured
| II? Was not even his bed taken ayay
| from him? Surely. for that indispensaI
pie article Of comfort which was picked
i up on the banks Of the Beresina after M
| flight over the river, stands beside the
| bed OF Peter the Great and the enor-
nous boots Of that giant monarch A
Cossacks brought back from the water
| loo campaign completes the story Of
| how Russia avenged herself BY CHASING
the invader clear across the European
| hibit is formed by a row of ~ csnno1
| captured from the retreatinE army al
| twenty nations and which stretches the
full length Of the arsenal wall in the
| The greatest monument of all the me.
| MORALS Of Napoleon's =, repuIse from
Moscow, however, stands just outside
cent Church OF Our e Saviour Tfe m1 E6i65
Alexander intended TO erect on sparrow
\ HILL where II would have Knocked the
M ,E OF Napoleon's fleeting moment
amount Of money had spent in a vain
| effort to find a firm foundation on The
null, the plan was changed and the
gate through which the invading EN-
| peror passed into the Kremlin
There, on the bank of the Moskova
rises this grandestN and costliest Of ali
| the war monuments in the world. There
1 by the Kremlin gate, the nation sendt
! up IN purest white marble It's PRAYER Of
| Thanksgiving. its Te Deunf. while within
| its walls there rises at high mass a bust
| Of song that raFfshes the soul From a
/ lofty gallery the visitor looks down upon
| the lacy marble of the snowy altar with
its priests in their rich vestments OF
| GoId, ana upon a multitude OF worship
| pers, sometimes as many as 1000 stand
ing on a floor of jasper
I The beautiful baritone If the priestIv
| chant mounts higher and higher until
It seems like the crescendo Of a great
/ pipe organ. Then a famous choII
! marches down a lane made by the sol.
oilers, who have pushed the people back.
/ and takes its stand in the center Of thu
i church. From the hundreds Of threats Of
| those well-drilled choristers, unaccom-
| panied BY any instruments, the choir
tones high and low. a glorious svrnrhonV
/ that is more like the music Of a great or
i chestra than Of the voices OF youna
/ peasants whose parents were born into
i Russia serfdom.
This church is the most imposing the
i most interesting, the most significant Of
| all the souvenirs Of Napoleon's capture
i and abandonment Of Moscow. There ID
/ something thoroughly characteristic %
| Russia, something peculiar to tho Pus-
\ sian nature. something very expressive
/ OF nation whose patriotism and re1
/ ligion are one and the same thing in this
i religious edifice built to celebrate the de-
liverance Of Moscow from a military In
vasion.
| Copyright lgJlgI BY Js-nes Morr,-'
Next sundsv-Mr. Mo--an's story Of
his journey @In the Path of Napoleon
ON his Russian retreat, the greatest of
i military tragedies, the EmperorsB flight
from his army, half . million men lost,
In six months.
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