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name, receiveth me" (Mark ix, 37), and says thai the asylum was 

 founded by Catharma II (1762-1796) September 1, 1763. Diameter, 

 2 inches. (Plates 7 and 8, fig. 3, Cat. No. 255168, U.S.N.M.) 



23. Bronzt medal, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of 

 tin (hath of Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonossov, Russian poet, philologist, 

 and scientist (1711-1765). On the obverse is the bust of the poet 

 with his name and the dates of his death, April 4, 1765, and of the cele- 

 bration of the centennial anniversary in Nizhni-Novgorod, April 4, 

 1S65. On the reverse, a man and a boy are standing on the short 1 

 holding a net by the side of lishinjj; boats, with the inscription: 

 "Leave alone, O boy, the fisherman! Other nets, other tasks await 

 you. Thou wilt catch minds, and be a helper of the Czars!" This 

 legend, probably taken from one of Lomonossov's poems, and the 

 scene depicted on the medal refer to the fact that the poet was the 

 son of a fisherman and was himself destined for this vocation, but 

 ran away from his father when he was 17 years old and became 

 a scholar and writer, thus earning the title of "lather of Russian 

 grammar and literature." Diameter, 2 inches. (Plates 7 and 8, 

 fig. 4, Tat. Xo. 255£39, U.S.N.M.) 



24- Panorama , in chrome-lithography, of tin city of St. Petersburg, 

 showing the principal buildings and monuments. Paper mounted on 

 cloth. Length, 28 feet 4 inches; height, sj inches. (Cat. No. 

 255643, U.S.N.M.) 



25. Panorama of the city of St. Petersburg. The same as the above, 

 No. 255643. Printed on cloth. Length, 24 feet; height, 7^ inches. 

 (Cat. No. 255644, U.S.N.M.) 



26. Opisanie Isaakievslcavo sobora v S. Peterburgye. (Description 

 of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.) By Reverend Y Sera- 

 phimov and Inspector M. Formin. St. Petersburg, 1865. The St. 

 [saac's Cathedral is considered as the finest church building in northern 

 Europe, and ranks in size, cost, and importance next after St. Peter's 

 in Rome, and St. Paul's iw London. It occupies the site of the orig- 

 inal wooden building erected by Peter the Great, which was dedicated 

 to St. Isaac of Dalmatia, because the city of St. Petersburg was 

 founded on the day sacred to him. The present building, entirely 

 of marble and granite, was begun in 1819 by Alexander I and con- 

 secrated in 1858 by Alexander II. It was designed by M. Mont- 

 ferrand, a French architect. Like other orthodox churches it is in 

 form of a Greek cross with four equal sides, surmounted in the center 

 with a cupola of cast and wrought iron, overlaid with gold, which 

 reaches a height of 102 meters, and is accompanied by four -mailer 

 ones at the four principal angles of (he central square. The four 

 octostyle porticoes are constructed each of forty-eight monolithic 

 columns of Finnish granite, II meters high, with Corinthian capi- 

 tals in bronze. Each of the porticoes has three flights of granite 



