THE KREMLIN.
Tho cabled accounts of the Czar's coronation must necessarily fail in giving tho colonial reader any adequate idea of the magnificence of the ceremony and its surroundings. Fuller accounts we shall have later on, descriptions of the gorgeous scone in tho Kremlin, that marvellous edifice or collection of edifices the pride of of Moscow, and the most wonderful buildings in Europe. To-day we give our readers the picture of the Kremlin, wherein the Autocrats of all the Russias have, for so many ages been solemnly crowned. The enclosure on which the Kremlin (Citadel is the English meaning of tho word) is built is no less than 150 acres in extent, surrounded by high walls, crowned by eighteen towers and pierced by five gates. The Kremlin enclosure is tho most sacred spot in all tho vast Russian Empire. The stranger equally with the native pilgrim must doll' his hat to the holy icon of tho Saviour which surmounts tho sacred gates, built so far back as 1491. Within the enclosure is the Cathedral of tho Assumption, built originally in 1520, ius interior encrusted with mosaics ami jewelled ornaments, adorned with venerated pictures, and sanctified by numerous relics of saints of the Greek Church. Within the walls of this cathedral all the earlier czars and all the Russian metropolitans and patriarchs have been consecrated, and all tho metropolitans buried. Within tho Kremlin enclosure also are no fewer than three other cathedrals and several churches and monasteries, together with an imperial palace and the famous Ivan Veliki tower, 270 feet high, built in IGOO, tho summit of which commands a magnificent view of Moscow with her gilded cupolas and fantastic towers, her half Asiatic, half European architecture. There are also museums, picture galleries, libraries, and an arsenal, the whole forming a unique collection of sights to which daily repair visitors from all parts of that mighty empire over which the young Czar Nicholas now rules the unquestioned monarch.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 18
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327THE KREMLIN. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 18
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