MOSCOW. 



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length, and about half this or less in breadth. This wa& 

 the krasnoi ploscliad (red place). 



The one side was bounded, opposite to us, and also to 

 the right, by another high whitewashed wall, with towers., 

 which contained the Kremlin proper ; the other side by 



THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. BASIL. 



the back of the low houses of the great bazaar. The end! 

 to the left was occupied by that most fantastical and 

 indescribable of all buildings, that compound of twenty 

 domes of different shapes and sizes, of stairs, and chapels, 

 and mass of colour, blue, green, yellow, white, red, and 

 gilt ; that Tartar-like Chinese Pagoda (ridiculous were it 



