Journal of a Tour to Moscow in the Summer of 1836
Journal of a Tour to Moscow in the Summer of 1836
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No- thing excited the cupidity of the soldiers so much labaume's narrative. 143 as the Cathedral of St. Michael, in which the ear- ly Emperors of Kussia are buried. A false tra- dition prevailed that great riches were concealed there. In this belief the soldiers ransacked the sepulcres of the Tzars, but found nothing except stone coffins, covered with red velvet, and having very thin silver plates, on which were inscribed the names of the Tzars, the day of their birth, and that of their death. ..." "Furious at their disappointment, they rummaged the coffins, profaned the ashes of the dead, and tore away the offerings consecrated by piety. * * * * With the cries and groans of the unhappy inhabi- tants were mingled the howling of dogs, which being chained before the gates of the palaces, were unable to escape the flames. * * * *" "The fourth corps having received orders to quit Moscow, we marched (17th September) towards Peterskoe, where our divisions were encamped. It was at that moment that I perceived a spectacle at once terrible and touching ; a crowd of the wretched inhabitants were dragging on miserable carriages all that they had been able to save from their burning houses, and, as the soldiers had taken away their horses, men, and even women, were seen harnessed to these carts, on which they 144 labaume's narrative.
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No- thing excited the cupidity of the soldiers so much labaume's narrative. 143 as the Cathedral of St. Michael, in which the ear- ly Emperors of Kussia are buried. A false tra- dition prevailed that great riches were concealed there. In this belief the soldiers ransacked the sepulcres of the Tzars, but found nothing except stone coffins, covered with red velvet, and having very thin silver plates, on which were inscribed the names of the Tzars, the day of their birth, and that of their death. ..." "Furious at their disappointment, they rummaged the coffins, profaned the ashes of the dead, and tore away the offerings consecrated by piety. * * * * With the cries and groans of the unhappy inhabi- tants were mingled the howling of dogs, which being chained before the gates of the palaces, were unable to escape the flames. * * * *" "The fourth corps having received orders to quit Moscow, we marched (17th September) towards Peterskoe, where our divisions were encamped. It was at that moment that I perceived a spectacle at once terrible and touching ; a crowd of the wretched inhabitants were dragging on miserable carriages all that they had been able to save from their burning houses, and, as the soldiers had taken away their horses, men, and even women, were seen harnessed to these carts, on which they 144 labaume's narrative.
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