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versts [six miles] to the south-east of Moscow. The mansion has an extensive 

 front, terminating at one extremity in a church, and at the other in an im- 

 mense group of log-houses, used as outer offices, and as lodgings for peasants. 

 In front is a court, enclosed by an iron palisade ; beyond this there is a hol- 

 low, across which a bank has been thrown up to retain a few acres of water. 

 The bank, however, is placed in the most conspicuous point of view, and 

 spoils the effect, by showing the naked hollow on one hand and the raised dam 

 of water on the other. The garden front of the house looks into a natural 

 forest, part of which has been cleared away ; and the ground, after being 

 smoothed, has been interspersed with walks and ornamental objects, and 

 kept as pleasure-ground. In the same natural wood is the kitchen-garden, 

 walled round with an extensive range of hot-houses, narrow, and with steep 

 sloping roofs, in the English manner. In them are grown, to a considerable 

 degree of perfection, all the fruits to be found in the hot-houses of England, 

 This garden and pleasure-ground are under the direction of a Scotch gar- 

 dener. The park of Kuskovo consists of a part of the natural forest, and 

 contains many wild animals, including wolves. It has some fine fishponds ; 

 and a small yacht, armed with cannon, and surrounded by various small 

 sailing and rowing boats, rides constantly in the lake formed by the dam 

 already mentioned. On Sundays and festivals there is a promenade, at 

 which are generally present the most distinguished nobles, merchants, and 

 common people of Moscow. 



[In the above description, our correspondent has deviated a good deal 

 from Storsch, Lyall, and some accounts of the same place which have 

 appeared in this country ; but as he is a resident in the neighbourhood, and 

 as we have some recollections of the place, having visited it in 1814, we 

 present the communication as sent.] 



Petrowskoy, near Moscow (j%. 116.), is one of those imperial palaces 

 which are not surrounded by gardens. It is, properly speaking, a house 



for the emperor to halt at before entering Moscow from the Petersburgh 

 road. It is in a singular style of architecture ; and, as a foreground to the 

 city, has a most imposing, and at the same time harmonious, appearance. 

 It \vas built during the sway of Potemkin, by the same architect who de- 

 signed Zaritzina. — ^S". P. Moscoiv, April 5. 1830. 



DENMARK. 



The Scenery in the Park of Jcegersborg. — Sir, In your description of the 

 park of J^gersborg (Vol. V. p. 72.), you have omitted to notice what is 

 generally considered to be the finest scenery in Denmark viz. that sur- 

 rounding the Esrom Lake. I send you a sketch {fig. 1 17.), which, if you 

 think fit to engrave, will, I think, convince your readers that we have some 

 as fine scenery in this part of Zealand as you have in Worcestershire or 



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