MOSCOW. 
original, although equally valuable. This ex- chap. 
traordinary talent for imitation has been also ■ — 
manifested in the Fine Arts. A picture by Ttemarka- 
Dietrici, in the style of Polemlerg, was borrowed 
by one of the Russian nobility from his friend. 
The owner of the picture had impressed his 
seal upon the back of it, and had inscribed it 
with verses and mottoes of his own composition. 
Having so many marks, he deemed his picture 
safe anywhere. But a copy so perfect was 
finished, both as to the painting, and to all the 
circumstances of colour in the canvas, and to 
the seal, and to the inscriptions, that when put 
into the original frame, and returned to its 
owner, the fraud was not discovered. This 
circumstance was afterwards made known by 
the confession of the artist employed ; and there 
are now residing in Petersburg and Moscoto 
foreign artists' of the highest respectability 
and talents who attest its truth. One of them, 
Camporesi, assured us, that, walking in the 
suburbs of Moscoiv, he entered a miserable hut 
belonging to a cobler; where, at the farther 
end of the dwelling, in a place designed to hold 
pans and kettles, and to dress victuals, he 
observed a ragged peasant at work. It was a 
(1) Guarcngld of Petersburg, and Camporesi of Moscow , Italian 
architects employed in the service of the Crown. 
