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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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told in all soberness. Frenchtravellers are famous for a tendency to make their narratives interesting,even if veracity should suffer. There are exceptions, of course, as in ev-erything else, but you may set it down as a good general rule, not to ac-cept without question any extraordinary statement you find in a Frenchbook of travel. 224 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. In dne time the journey was resumed, and the train reached Novgo-rod, where our travellers alighted. Novgorod stands on both sides of theVolkhov River, and is one hundred and three miles from St. Petersburgby the old post-road. It is not remarkable for its architecture, and ischiefly interesting for its historical associations and souvenirs. We visited several of the churches and monasteries which make upthe attractions of Novgorod, said Frank, in his journal. The principalchurch is the Cathedral of St. Sophia, which was called in ancient times The Heart and Soul of the Great Novgorod. The first cathedral was
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OLD PICTURE IN THE CIIUUCH. built here in 989 ; the present one dates from about 1045, when it waserected l)y order of the grandson of St. Yladimir. It has been alteredand repaired repeatedly, but the alterations have not materially changed itfrom its ancient form. It is one of the oldest churches in Russia, and isheld in great reverence by the people. •The church has suffered by repeated plunderings. It was robbedby John the Terrible, and afterwards by the Swedes; the latter, in 1611,killed two of the priests and destroyed the charter which had beengranted to the cathedral more than fifty years before. In spite of these THE CHUECH OF NOVGOROD. 225 depredations, the church contams many relics and images, some of themof great antiquity. There are shrines in memory of Yaroslav, Vladimir,and other of the ancient rulers of Russia; the shrine and tomb of St.Anne, daughter of King Olaf of Sweden, and wife of Piince Yaroslav I.;and the shrines or tombs of many other saints, j)rinces, archb

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