CHAP. III. 
NOVOGOROD. 
Antient History of Novogorod — First Churches in Russia, 
— Procopius — E vagrius — Baptism of Olga, afterwards 
Helena — Arms of Novogorod — Ceremony of Crossing 
—General Picture of this Route— Heights of Valday 
Costume — Tumuli — Jedrova — Domestic Manners of 
the Peasants — Servile Stale of the Empire — Vyshney 
Voloshok — Torshok — Tver —Milanese Vagrants— 
Volga — Tumuli — Klin — Petrovsky — Arrival at 
Moscow — Police — Accommodations. 
CI iir. P ' The melancholy ideas excited by the present 
appearance of Novogorod have been felt by all 
History of travellers. Who has not heard the antient 
Novogorod. 
