The Midnight Sun the Tsar And the Nihilist Adventures And Observations in Nor
The Midnight Sun the Tsar And the Nihilist Adventures And Observations in Nor
J M James Monroe Buckley
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% After arranging at the hotel, we made a general tour of the town. The streets are very straight, and the widest I have ever seen in a large city. Even the cross-streets are, many of them, wider than Broadway. The public buildings are more numerous than in other capitals, and of vast size. In one part of the city, near the Admiralty, there is almost a continuous mile and a half of public buildings. In another section one may walk along the Neva for a mile and see nothing but massive col- umns ...and stupendous walls. 154 RUSSIA'S "WINDOW INTO EUROPE. " The city, however, is built upon a flat surface, and the eye is not satisfied with the effect, especially as the colors are uniform. From one of my books I take the following, which is correct : " No buildings are raised above the rest ; masses of architecture, worthy of mountains for their pedestals, are ranged side by side in endless lines, and the eye, nowhere gratified either by elevation or groupings, wanders unsatisfied over a monotonous sea of stuccoed palaces, vainly seeking a point of antiquity or shade on which to repose.
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