MOSCOW. 
painter in enamel, copying very beautiful pic- 
tures. The same person, he added, might 
have been found the next day drunk in a cellar, 
or howling beneath the cudgel ot his task- 
master. Under the present form of government 
in Russia, it is not very probable that the Fine 
Arts will ever flourish. A Russian is either a 
slave, or he has received his freedom. In the 
former instance, he works only when instigated 
by the rod of his master, and is cudgelled as 
often as his owner thinks proper. While em- 
ployed in works of sculpture or painting, he 
is frequently called off, to mend a chair or a 
table, to drive nails into a wainscot, or to daub 
the walls of the house. When evening falls, 
as certainly falls a cudgel across his shoulders ; 
which is not the way to educate artists. But 
if he have received his freedom, the action of 
the cudgel ceasing, all stimulus to labour ends: 
lie has then no other instigation to work, than 
the desire of being able to buy brandy, and to 
become intoxicated : this he does whenever he 
can procure the means, and there is soon a 
period put to any further exertion of his talents. 
The booksellers’ shops in Moscow are better 
furnished than in Petersburg ; but they are very 
rarely placed upon a ground-floor. The con- 
venience of walking into a shop from the street, 
