CHAP. IX. 
MOSCOW. 
Visit to the Archbishop of Moscow — his Conversation — 
Convent of Nicoll na Perrera — Funeral of Prince 
Galitzin — Stalls for Fruit and Food — Sparrow Hill — 
Public Morals — Banquets of the Nobles — Barbarous 
Etiquette observed at Russian Tables — Anecdote oj two 
English Gentlemen — Precautions to be used in travel- 
ling — Dealers in Virtu — Adventurers and Swindlers — 
Immense Wealth of the Nobles — Condition of the 
Peasants. 
A curious contrast to the splendour in which chap. 
we had hitherto beheld Plato, archbishop of , 
Moscow, was offered, during a visit we made to J^hbTshep 
him at the Convent of Nicoll na Perrera, a semi- of Moscou '- 
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