VI 

 From Petrograd to Moscow 



FROM Russia's capital my next journey was by 

 rail over the straightest four hundred miles of 

 railroad in the world, to the Holy City Moscow. 

 I was the bearer of letters enough to keep me there 

 a fortnight and to open to me every place of 

 interest in the city. These letters were to the 

 Grand Duke Sergius Alexandrovitch, brother of 

 the Czar, Governor of the Province of Moscow; 

 one given me by Princess Troubetski to Madame 

 Kostanda, wife of the Commander-in-Chief of 

 the military, a force numbering 225,000 soldiers; 

 to Prince Dologoroki; to Prince Ourousow; to 

 His Honour the Mayor of Moscow, and to others. 

 Under escort of the Secretary to the Mayor and 

 his business partner, both Russians with a good 

 English tongue, I was enabled to see the Holy 

 City under most favourable auspices. 



Time would fail me to tell of the Kremlin with 



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