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some difficulties; but the model was rendered c ^* p - 
complete. Its fronts are ornamented with ^ — * — ' 
ranges of beautiful pillars, according to different 
orders of architecture. Every part of it was 
finished in the most beautiful manner, even to 
the fresco painting on the ceilings of the rooms, 
and the colouring of the various marble columns 
intended to decorate the interior. It incloses 
a theatre, and magnificent apartments. Had the 
work been completed, it would have surpassed 
the Temple of Solomon, the Propylteum of Amasis, 
the Villa of Adrian, or the Forum of Trajan. Our 
friend Camporesi spoke of it in terms of equal 
praise ; but at the same time confessed, that 
Guarenghi, his countryman, an architect well 
known for his works in Petersburg, entertained 
different sentiments. Guarenghi allowed it to be 
grand, as it must necessarily be, from the magni- 
tude of the design ; but thought it too much orna- 
mented, and too heavy in many of its parts. 
The architecture exhibited in different parts 
of the Kremlin, in its palaces and churches, is “ r c ® m °^ th * 
unlike any thing seen in Europe. It is difficult 
to say from what country it has been principally 
derived. The architects were generally Ita- 
lians 8 ; but the style is Tartarian, Indian, Chinese, 
and Gothic: — here a pagoda, there an arcane! 
(2) Solarius of Milan was principally employed. 
