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cations of the Union armies. Several expedi- 

 tions were sent out to capture him, and he was 

 wounded several times, but he always evaded 

 the enemy. 



After the close of the war he established a 

 law office at Warrenton, Va., and joined the 

 Republican party. In 1876 he supported Ruth- 

 erford B. Hayes for President of the United 

 eg, and in a public letter first used the 

 phrase, the "Solid South," which remained for 

 n a popular expression referring to the fact 

 that all the Southern states were Democratic. 

 From 1878 to 1885 Mosby was United States 

 consul at Hong-kong, and after his return to 

 America opened a law office in San Francisco. 

 In 1904 he became assistant attorney in the 

 Department of Justice in Washington, holding 

 this position until 1910. His published works 

 include The Dawn of the Real South and JJV/r 



noes. 



MOSCOW, mos'ko, the second capital of 

 Russia and the former residence of the c/ 

 is the chief city of the province, or government, 

 of the same name. Situated on the banks of 

 the Moskva, 400 miles southeast of Petrograd, 

 it is a little to the north of the most populous 

 parts of Russia. Rich in traditions and filled 

 with ancient monument >. n is a veritable store- 

 house of Russian archaeology. In its old 

 churches it shelters holy n li<-> and sacred pic- 

 1 by the entire people. To the 

 pious Russian imagination, indeed, the sacred 

 edifices p-oi;|.d within the Kremlin are the 

 very holy of hoi 



.lin is an ving a 



hill near ibed 



' )f the many 

 sacred buildings within :ilm the : 



;y Cathedral, 

 f the fifteenth 



;ry on the site of a still more ancient 

 fice. im the old'-t holy picture in all 



"holy" Russia. The cathedral of the Archangel 

 ombs of all the czars 



down to the time of Peter the Great, and near 



- a convent dating from the close of the 



fourteenth century which has served as the 



I wives and sisters of the czars. 



<TS and turrets of this 



etat. ; mg of bells," the largest 



bell in the world (see BELL). 



To the east of th.- Kr. mlin lies the portion 

 of the city known as the Kitai Gorod (China- 

 town), which Mill forms the commercial renter 



Moscow. About ,1m and tl 



Gorod extends the so-called White City (Byely 



Gorod), the center of fashion, and beyond this 

 again in a broad zone stretches the Earthen 

 City (Zemlyanoi). The suburbs are more ex- 

 tensive than the city itself. 



Not all the notable public buildings of Mos- 

 cow are to be found in the Kremlin. The most 

 striking building in the city is the Cathedral of 

 Saint Basil, built in the sixteenth century; the 

 Pokrovsky Cathedral is one of the architec- 

 tural wonders of Russia. It is topped with 

 towers all differing from one another and rep- 

 resenting in their coloring pineapples, melons, 



LOCATION MAP 



Showinp the network of Russian railroads 

 which center in the city. 



etc. Worthy of note also are the modern 

 Church of the Saviour, the Palace, occupied in 

 1812 by Napoleon, and the town hall. Moscow 

 is the seat of the Imperial University, founded 

 by the Empress Catharine in 1755. It has a 

 notable museum and a library of 300,000 vol- 

 umes. Four thousand students are regularly 

 enrolled. 



Moscow i- the chief industrial city of the 

 country, and one of the great commercial 

 ters of Europe. Six railroads converge upon it 

 from all parts of European Russia as well as 

 Siberia. These, with its position, make it the 

 natural center for the internal minium-- 

 Russ: : principal manufactures are textile 

 fabrics, woolen, cotton and silk ; but hats, hard- 

 ware, machinery, lc mical products and 

 spirits are also prodno d m large quantities. 



The foundation of the city dates from the 

 twelfth century, although the site was probably 

 occupied long before. As the residence of the 



