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tween the two cascades, is a grotto, in front of 
which a group of seventeen jets of water pour into 
the pool. In the midst of the Samson pool is a 
bronze Samson gilded, the work of the sculptor, 
Kostovsky, tearing apart the jaws of a lion, from 
whose throat pours forth a column of water eight 
centimeters in diameter and twenty-two meters 
high. Still other fountains are arranged around the 
Italy, and the empress remained at Nice, while the 
emperor returned to Russia. When the empress 
rejoined her royal husband she found that he had 
erected these two pavilions as a souvenir of their 
Italian journey. More important is the Chateau 
Alexandria, in the Gothic style, constructed for the 
empress of that name, and which the Czar, Alex- 
ander III., usually selected for his summer resi- 
THE PETERHOF PALACE AND TERRACE. 
Samson, and all this water, after having been 
raised and having fallen again, been atomized as 
spray, after having rippled and hissed and roared, 
escapes into the Gulf of Finland, through a canal 
which extends to the wharf of the palace. 
The park is filled with statues, colonnades in 
semi-circle, and especially with fountains: those of 
Adam, Eve, Triton, the Cascade of Lions and many 
others, all of which are in action when the great 
fountain plays. 
The fantasy of the Czars has scattered build- 
ings of all sorts over the grounds of the Peterhof: 
Morly, which looks across a pool; the Hermitage, 
the Belvidere, the Birch pavilion. On the islands 
of Olga and Tsaritzine, which are in a little fish- 
pond, are two buildings in the Pompeiian and Ital- 
ian styles. The Czar Nicolas I. and his empress, 
Alexandra Feodorowna, had made a journey to 
dence. The public has free access to the park of 
the Peterhof, through which are built a great num- 
ber of villas, where, during the months of June, 
July and August, the court is located. 
A private garden, inclosed by a grill, is situated 
behind the grand palace. At the corner of the 
palace on the left, at the entrance to the garden, 
stands the pretty church of SS. Peter and Paul, 
erected by Rastrelli in 1851. 
The Peterhof is thirty kilometers from St. Pe- 
tersburg and a dozen from Cronstadt . — From V Il- 
lustration. 
The French government will make strenuous efforts 
to rival the World’s Fair in its great Exposition of 1900. 
The French are a tasteful people, and we may expect to 
see elegance and refinement as ruling characteristics of 
the scheme. 
