MOSCOW. 
before their Boghs, and to decorate the sacred 
pictures in the streets, or elsewhere. It is 
one of the gayest promenades ot the year. 
The Governor, attended by the Maitre de Police, 
the Commandant, and a train of nobility, go 
in procession, mounted on fine horses. The 
streets are lined with spectators ; and cavalry 
are stationed on each side, to preserve order. 
Arriving in the Kremlin, a vast assembly, bear- 
ing artificial bouquets and boughs, are seen 
moving here and there, forming the novel and 
striking spectacle of a gay and moving forest. 
The boughs consist of artificial flowers, with 
fruit. Beautiful representations of oranges and 
lemons in wax are sold for a few copeeks each, 
and offer a proof of the surprising ingenuity 
of this people in the arts of imitation. Upon 
this occasion, every person who visits the 
Kremlin, and would be thought a true Christian, 
purchases one or more of the boughs called 
Palm-branches ; and, in returning, the streets 
are crowded with droshies, and all kinds ot 
vehicles, filled with devotees, holding in their 
hands one or more palm-branches, according to 
the degree of their piety, or the number of 
Boghs in their houses. 
The description often given of the splen- 
dour of the equipages in Moscow but ill agrees 
