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chap, pagan idols, and eight hundred concubines, 
■ . 1 were dismissed together ; and the twelve sons, 
which his six wives had borne unto him, were 
baptized: churches and monasteries brought 
around them towns and villages; and civiliza- 
tion seemed to dawn upon the plains and the 
forests of Scythia. Indeed, a memorial of the 
blessed effects of Christianity, among a people 
who were scarce removed from the brute 
creation, seems to be preserved even in the 
Arms of Arms of the Government of Novogorod, the 
Novgorod. w p cre it was first established; and 
the ludicrous manner in which this event is 
typified, is consistent with the barbarism of the 
people. Two bears, supporters, are repre- 
sented at an altar upon the ice, with crucifixes 
crossed before the Obraze, or Bogh, on which is 
placed a candelabrum with a triple lustre, as an 
emblem of the Trinity 
The fortress of Novogorod is large, but of 
wretched appearance. It was constructed after 
the plan of the Kremlin at Moscow, towards the 
end of the fifteenth century, and contains the 
cathedral. Upon the bridge, leading to this 
fortress from the town, is a small sanctuary, 
where every peasant who passes either deposits 
(l) See the Vignette to the preceding Chapter. 
