Travels in Europe and America (1903) (14779870782)

Identifier: travelsineuropea00bolt (find matches)
Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e streets of thevillages, and are met by young men dancing for-ward in file, from the opposite side of the squares.These simple hearted people have songs for &w^xyseason, and in unfavorable weather celebrate theirfestivals in each others houses. Opposite theentrance door usually hangs the Icon or familyTitulary-Saint. On cold nights many familiessleep on top of immense brick stoves, the tempera-ture being carefully temperedo Chay! Chay! shouts the uncouth Russian atevery station. Chay, or hot tea, is served from abrass urn in glasses, with a slice of lemon on thesurface. The Russians are great tea drinkers. Thepoor use a home-grown herb, the rich the choicestbrands brought overland from China. Anotherpopular drink is Vodka, a species of coarse gindistilled from rye, or potatoes. The ordinary dietof the peasant is black bread, buckwheat porridgewith onions, and soup of fermented cabbage. In winter the Muzhik wears a black fur cap andsheep-skin clothes, the wool next the body, bound
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TRAVELS. 197 at the waist with red scarf or rope. In summer hewears blue and pink shirts loose about the body,with shoes of basket-slits fastened criss-cross to theknees with strings. We reached Moscow at 10:15 a. m. on November2, and obtained rooms at the Hotel Billo. The Red Gate of Moscow is approached on theway from the Nicholas railway depot. It waserected by the merchants of the city, when Eliza-beth the daughter of Peter the Great, was crowned.At the coronation of Paul, the son of Catharine theGreat, food and drink were spread for the peopleall the way from the Red Gate to the Kremlin, Moscow is situated in the center of the Empire inEurope and is called the heart of Russia, while St.Petersburg is the head. Here center Russian ideas,Russian faith and a net-work of railways. Thecity has a mixture of great palaces, and littleyellow houses, nearly all of wood, with 300 or morechurches on irregular streets. Many iron roofs arepainted green, and many domes are gilded. Thewhole scene