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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SHRINES OP MOSCOW. Above each gate a blessed Saint Asks favor of the skies, And the hosts of the foe do fail and faint At the gleam of their watchful eyes; And Pole, and Tartar, and haughty Gaul, Flee, dismayed, from the Kremlin wall. Here lie our ancient Czars, asleep, --Ivan and Feodor, --While loving angels round them keep Sweet peace forevermore I Only when Easter bells ring loud, They sign the cross beneath the shroud. O Troitsas altar is divine, --St. Sergius I hear our prayers I And Kieff, Olgas lofty shrine, The name of " The Holy" bears; But Moscow blends all rays in one--They are the stars, and she the sun I flHE story of Moscow is written on its streets and walls. Every roof and dome bears the impress of Tartar domination, and the dark faces among its fair Muscovite crowds show that the Asiatic still lingers in the long contested land. Its dwellings, white or pink or yellow, green-roofed and encompassed with gardens; its palaces and conventual piles; its churches with lofty towers filled with bells; its numberless domes and cupolas, gilded, silvered, enameled, --each upholding above the crescent a cross of gold attached by shining chains of filagree work, --and, high in the midst, the strange gateways and battlements and spires of the Kremlin, make up a Christian, Mohammedan, wondrous whole, more impressive for the solitary waste which encircles its grotesque, yet unrivaled splendors. The Kremlin is both fortress and altar; the religious heart of Russia; the place of her holiest shrines and the deposit of her proudest trophies. About it the streets of Moscow range themselves as those of an English cathedral city do about the minster. Triangular in shape and somewhat Over a mile in circumference, it rises on the elevated bank...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217762991 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217762999 |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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