CHAP. II. 
FROM PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW. 
Departure from Petersburg — Manner of Travelling — 
Palace of Tsarskoselo — Gardens — Anecdote of Bil- 
lings’s Expedition to the North-west Coast of America 
— Ledyard — Barbarous Decoration of the Apartments 
— Arrival at Novogorod — Cathedral — Antient Greek 
Paintings — Manner of imitating them in Russia — 
Superstitions of the Greek Church — Virgin with Three 
Hands — Story of her Origin — Russian Bogh. 
W* left Petersburg on the morning of the chap. 
third of April, and arrived with great expedi- ' — 
tion at Tsarskoselo. Our carriage had been De ™°° ure 
placed upon a traineau or sledge ; and another 
