Identifier: boytravellersinr00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ity of the tower, but it is gener-ally believed to date from the year 1600, and to have been built by BorisGodounoff. It is in five stories, of which the upper is in the form of acylinder, while the others are octagonal in shape. The top is two hundredand seventy feet from the ground, and is reached by a winding stair-way. The guide called our attention to the bells in the tower; there are noless than thirty-four of them, and some are very large. In the second storyhangs a bell known as the Assunq^tion, which weighs sixty-four tons; itis therefore four times as heavy as the great bell of Kouen, five times thatof Erfurt, and eight times as heavy as the (xreat Tom of Oxford, the largestbell in England ! The oldest of the other bells bears the date 1550 ; thevechie bell of Novgorod the Great once hung in this tower, but nobodyknows where it is at present. The effect of the ringing of these bells atEaster is said to be very fine, as they are of different tones, and so ar- THE KREMLIN. 239
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240 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. ranged that they make no discord. In the upper story are two silveibells, whose tones are said to be very sweet. We stopped a while at each of the stories to look at the bells and enjoythe view, and thus reached the top without much fatigue. But if we hadl»een so weary as to be unable to stand, we should have been amply repaidfor our fatigue. The view is certainly one of the finest we ever had froma height overlooking any city in Europe, with the possible exceptions ofParis and Constantinople. Moscow, with its undulating and irregular streets, with the Moskvawinding through it in the shape of the letter S, with its four hundred churches and an immense variety of towersand domes and minarets, with the variationsof palace and hovel already mentioned, andwith the great buildings of the Kremlin form-ing the foreground of the scene, lay beforeand below us. It was Moscow (the Holy),the city of the Czars and beloved of everypatriotic Russian ; t

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