The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian language; and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c / By Robert Lyall.

  • Robert Lyall
Date:
1823
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Credit: The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian language; and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c / By Robert Lyall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page Provision-Market; Frozen Markets 339—342 House of General Apraxin; English Club; and Palace of Pashkof 342—344 Stretenskoi and Zlatoiistinskoi monasteries; Rojestvenskoi nunnery, and churches 344—347 Description and internal economy of the Foundling Hospital 348—355 Lombard bank; Loan bank ; Archives of the College of Foreign Affairs 356—362 Minor government offices ; Medico-chirurgical academy 362 — 366 Fruit-Market 366—368 V. Description of the ZEMLIANOI-GOROD, or EARTHEN TOWN, the Fourth Division of the City. Former and present state; names of the streets, gates, and quarters 368—370 Various churches and nunneries described. Reformed Church, &c 370—376 House of the Military working battalion; Barracks and Baths, &c 379—381 VI. Description of the SLOBODI, or SUBURBS, the Fifth Division of the City. Churches and monasteries, in or near the same 381—401 Paul’s hospital; Galitsin’s hospital ; Merchants’ infirmary 402—409 Provision magazines, Markets and Gardens 409, 410 Wooden an ] stone palaces of the Countess Orlof-Chesmenska 410—414 Novo-Devitchei nunnery; Khamovltcheskiya barracks 416 -423 Cemetery of Lazarus ; Institutes of Catharine and Alexander 423, 424 Account of Sheremetef’s hospital, and other hospitals 425—439. 441, 446—448 Prison of the Government of Moscow, and other neighbouring edifices 426—430 Bell Founderies 431 House of correction ; Infirmaries of Catharine and of the Old Ceremonialists, 440 - 442 Roman Catholic church; Palace of the Suburbs; of Constantine; of Le Fort; and of Catharine 443—446 Red Barracks; Foreign or German Cemetery....... 446—450 VII. History of the City of MOSCOW from the Year 1147 to 1823. Various incursions and depredations of the Tartars; Moscow damaged by fires 451—468 Ravages of the plague in the 14th and 18th centuries 454, 477 Progress and completion of the fortifications of Moscow 454, 464—466 Accounts of Moscow by various travellers in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the former part of the 19th century 470—484 Entrance of Buonaparte into Moscow in 1812; extent of the conflagration of the city 486—502 Remarks on the conduct of Count Rostopchin, the military governor of Mos- cow in 1812 503, 504