MOSCOW. 
therefore we felt grateful in being allowed 
admission. Prince Fiazemskoy, who married an 
English lady, kindly procured tickets for us; 
notwithstanding the danger at that time of 
shewing kindness and attention to Englishmen 1 . 
If his Excellency be now living, he is requested 
to pardon this testimony of his generous conde- 
scension. The author feels sensible that a 
congeniality of sentiment will render any apo- 
logy superfluous for the sacrifice he has else- 
where made in the cause of truth. 
The coup d'aeil, upon entering the grand 
saloon, is inconceivable. The company con- 
sisted of near two thousand persons. The 
dresses were the most sumptuous that can be 
imagined; and, what is more remaikable, they 
were conceived in the purest taste, and were 
in a high degree becoming. The favourite 
ornaments of the ladies, at this time, were 
cameos, which they wore upon their arms, in 
girdles round their waists, or upon their 
bosoms ; a mode of adorning the fair that has 
since found its way to our own country, and 
(1)1 Wish to lay particular stress upon this circumstance, as almost 
all travellers have celebrated Russian hospitality, ai.d particularly that 
of the inhabitants of Moscow. “ ^'hospitality des Russes," say the 
Authors of the Voyage de Deux Fmvyais, “ parolt ici dans tout son 
