The Empire of the Czar: or, Observations on the Social, Political, and Religious State and Prospects of Russia

ENGLISH CLUB. REUNION OF NATIONS. PECULIAR CHARACTER OF ARCHITECTURE IN MOSCOW. OBSERVATION OF MADAME DE STAEL. ADVANTAGE OF OBSCURE TRAVELLERS. — KITAIGOROD. MADONNA OF VIVIELSKI. CHURCH OF VASSILI BLAGENNOI. THE HOLY GATE ADVANTAGE OF FAITH OVER DOUBT. CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION. FOREIGN ARTISTS. TOWER OF JOHN THE GREAT. — CONVENT OF THE ASCENSION INTERIOR OF THE TREASURY. CROWNS AND THRONES, TREASURES OF THE CZARS. A CONTRAST. MOORISH PALACE. NEW WORKS AT THE KREMLIN. DESECRATION OF THE FORTRESS. ERROR OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. RESTORATION OF THE CAPITAL TO MOSCOW. VIEW OF MOSCOW FROM THE KREMLIN. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY. — OBSERVATION OF NAPOLEON. — DANGER OF HEROISM IN RUSSIA. ROSTOPCHIN. THE FALL OF NAPOLEON. — REVIEW OF HIS CHARACTER

The inflammation of my eye being reduced, I left my prison yesterday, in order to dine at the English club. It is a species of restaurateur, to which there is no admission except through the introduction of a member of the society, which is composed of the most distinguished people in Moscow. The institution is newly copied from the English, like our cercles of Paris.