MOSCOW. 
The same want of taste reigned in the furniture 
and appearance of their houses. On one side 
you might see gold and silver in heaps ; on the 
other, “ a shocking dirtiness .” And then he adds , 
“ It was enough for a dealer in the commodities 
of luxury and fashion to remain two or three 
years at Petersburg , to gain a competency foi 
the rest of his life; even though he should have 
begun the world there with goods upon credit. 
Instances of this kind, during the period of our 
residence in Russia, might be cited, as having 
happened both in Petersburg and in Moscow. 
( 4 ) Memoirs of Russia, p. 248. 
