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MOSCOW. 
chap. The Kremlin is, above all other places, most 
. VI v worthy a traveller s notice. It was our evening 
Kremlin ' walk, whenever we could escape from the 
engagements of society. The view of the city 
from this place surpasses every other, both in sin- 
gularity and splendour ; especially from St. Ivan s 
Tower. It is surrounded on all sides by walls, 
towers, and a rampart, and is filled with domes 
and steeples. Its appearance differs in every 
point of view, on account ol the strange irre- 
gularity in the edifices it contains. Entering this 
fortress by an arched portal, painted red, which 
Holy Gate, is called the Holy Gate, persons ol every descrip- 
tion are compelled to walk bare-headed, near a 
hundred paces. This gate is on the south side, 
facing the quarter of the shops. The approach 
to it is by a bridge, across the fosse that sur- 
rounds the walls. It is a vaulted Propylccum ; 
and over the entrance there is a picture ', before 
which a lamp is seen continually burning. Sen- 
tinels are here placed, as at all the entrances to 
the Kremlin. No person ventures to pass this 
(l) “ You enter the Holy Cate by a long narrow bridge over the 
fosse. On the left hand is a noble view down to the river. The whole 
coup dteeil much resembled Seringapatam, as represented in Kerr 
Porter's Panorama. In passing under the Holy Gate, all hats are 
taken off, in reverence for a saint suspended over it, who delivered the 
citadel, as tradition affirms, by striking a sudden panic into an army 
Of Poles, which had possession of the town, and had almost succeeded 
in forcing this gate of the Kremlin.” Hebei's MS. Journal. 
