GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTNETS. 
CHAP. III. 
P. 31. 
NOVOGOROD. 
Antient history of Novogorod — First churches in Russia — 
Procopius — Evagrius — Baptism of Olga, afterwards Helena 
—Arms of Novogorod— Ceremony of crossing — Cjeneral 
picture of this route — Heights of Valday — Costume Tumuli 
— Jedrova — Domestic manners of the peasants Servile 
state of the empire — Vyshney Voloshok — Torshok — Tver — 
Milanese vagrants— Volga — Tumuli — Klin' Petrovsky— 
Arrival at Moscow— Police — Accommodations. 
CHAP. IV. 
P. 53. 
MOSCOW. 
Peculiarities of climate — Impressions made on a first arrival — 
Russian hotel — Persian, Kirgissian, and Bucharian ambas- 
sadors — Fasts and Festivals — Ceremonies observed at Easter 
— Palm Sunday — Holy Thursday — Magnificent ceremony of 
the Resurrection — Excesses of the populace — Presentation of 
the Paschal eggs — Ball of the peasants — Ball of the nobles 
—Characteristic incident of caprice in dress. 
CHAP. V. 
P. 86. 
MOSCOW, 
Surprising talent of imitation among the Russians — Remarkable 
fraud practised by a native artist — Booksellers— State of 
literature — Libraries of the nobles — Equipages — Costume of 
the Bourgeoisie — Amusements of the people — Chapel of the 
Tverschaia — Miracles wrought there — Nature of the impos- 
ture — Artifice of a merchant — Assassination of an archbishop 
— Motive for the worship of pictures— Resemblance between 
