Photo by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 

 TIII;RJ^" ARr; NOT AS MAiNY SHRINES AND CHAPELS IN NIZHNI-NOVGOROD AS IN 



MOSCOW 



This one is by the station, and a laborer has lingered to offer his devotions and leave a 

 kopeck before the Icon on the tal)le ; a representation of Christ in bronze and mosaic, pro- 

 tected from the weather by a glass frame. Note the candle l)urning behind the glass. The 

 pictures accompanying this article, showing peasant and gentlemen at devotion, pages 427, 

 433, 441. 443, and 467, are actual snapshots. None of them were posed or planned; similar 

 scenes may be seen every moment, everywhere in Russia. His religion is very real to the 

 Russian, and his God is really omnipresent to him ; he sees His Spirit everywhere, and 

 everywhere acknowledges it with the sign of the cross and the words "Oh, Lord! have 

 mercy," or "Glory be to Thee, Oh, Lord!" (see also page 461). 



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