The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
CHAPTER XXVI.
FROM ST. PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW.
American Engineers.—Sleeping Arrangements.—Newspapers.—Drama.—Courtesy.— Lubanskaia.—Dinner.—Villages.—The Volga.—Murdered Bishop.—Sleeping Car.—Ladder.—Russian Jargon.—Pathetic Appeal.—Board.—Refreshments.— Greek Ecclesiastic.—Patriarch Nicon.—New Jerusalem.—Profanity.— Tyranny.—Revolt.—Pope of the North.—Emperor’s Slight.—Nicon’s Humility.—Banishment.—Patriarchates.—Dead Level.—Flight of Freedom
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