MOSCOW. 
pass without notice. We had, moreover, a 
particular reason for hoping this would be the 
case; as, in obedience to a decree of the 
Emperor Paul, we had collected our short hair 
into a queue, which appeared most ridiculously 
curtailed, sticking out, like any thing but that 
which it was intended to represent, and most 
remarkably contrasted with the long tails of the 
Russians. Unfortunately, the case was other- 
wise ; and a curiosity to see the two Englishmen 
becoming general, to our great dismay we 
found ourselves surrounded by a crowd of 
persons, some of whom thought proper to ask, 
who cut our hair ? Such questions, it may be 
conceived, did not add to the evening’s amuse- 
ment ; but our astonishment was completed the 
next day, in receiving the thanks and blessings 
of a poor ragged barber, who had powdered us 
at the inn, and whose fortune he assured us we 
had made ; all the young nobles having sent for 
him, to cut and dress their hair in the same 
ridiculous manner 1 . 
Such a trifling incident would not have been 
mentioned, if it had not ultimately taken a 
(l) A review of this work has appeared in America, professedly 
written by a Russian : indeed, it bears strong internal evidence of 
such an origin. Its author, speaking of this anecdote, confesses 
“ that it has all the appearance of being rigorously true." The same 
