MOSCOW. 
the Company by their dancing. A single rouble 
was demanded as the price ot admission. All 
fears of appearing like foreigners vanished 
upon our entering the principal ball-room , tor 
we found an assembly as various in their appear- 
ance as the motley members ot a masquerade. 
Upon some benches was squatted a groupe 
of Turks, regarding the scene with their usual 
gravity and indifference, unmoved by shouts 
of joy or by tumultuous songs, by the noise 
of the dancing, or by the thundering of a pair 
of kettle-drums close to their ears. In another 
room was a party of Bucharians, with flat noses, 
high cheek-bones, and little eyes ; their heads 
shaven, and having small conical embroidered 
caps on the top of their bald sculls : these men 
wore red morocco boots, long trowsers of blue 
cloth, with a girdle and a poignard. Besides 
the Bucharians, were Chinese merchants, Cossacks, 
and even Calmucks, all of whom- appeared as 
spectators. In the middle of the room, the 
Russian boors, and the tradesmen of the city, 
were dancing with prostitutes, while their own 
wives and daughters were walking about. 
A party of gipsies was performing the national 
dance, called, from the air by which it is 
accompanied, Barina. It resembled our Eng- 
lish hornpipe, and was full of expressions of 
the most ferocious licentiousness. The male 
