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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1920.

DETROGRAD-

THE UNIQUE

The NerSIBI Prospect, Petrohrads

Here Street

An Intimate Sketch of This Remarkable Russian City-

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The Home of the Bolsheviki.

AND FINAL, Av. The intersat it sendtoutes

as marly as 1784. The cly s bus

$34.

AN there monoliths,

cathedrals have great fact the mobolith obelisks of Egypt are tot more re- markable. Four of these huge vol- umns each sixty feet high sustain the four porticos of the Cathedral of St. Isaac. while Afty-six columns granite from Fieland support the

ETROGRAD"er St. Petersburg. as was known before the was.

upon absolutely that cronged, much of commercial center and was up to the 19 Just Bud it the public ke

in beng made around. Its climate is beginning of the present war; it be more than at any other time of and tur it to extremely cold in winter came so fashionable to live in Fetro history, as the center of the with en la Fabered Teers from Octe- and that at the end of the eighteenth, "Bolsheviki movement now as cantrel

ver payt dune while que summers are century is population numbered 200,- of that l-fated People. The city ist, damp and very hot. Cholera in

difcren: in

in aspect and sten sammer is hearty alwers

42 annual tecture from other Rakan cities and stor and the weather part of the marshes were drained and the popula

During the reign of Alexander 1 19. spec-ly unlike Moscow, where the

where the papulu.cn betake themselves to u Oriental st holds sway and

makes mer homes on the islands of the Nevas doubled. When Nicholas I came Nazan Cathedral. These two churches Parapress upon the enure complexion:

evar to the throne he had consectetapistazu gold and precious scones of the city.

which make up a part of the city. The Neri frequently overhows and rallways with all the important parts together Great ko for comical W

Europe and I's founder had in mind a city which the prisoners in the prison of St. Peter:f the Empire and many cities of Eu-jare heaped together.

Fretty soon it became queer painting partly covered with should

and St. Paul have been drowned lap as well. with the their cells in summer during the Falks: R educational center and the hun.: gold, are all abou: abere people pray. of Russia. Peter west ci

and with superstitious reverence have while others have feren todea educational instutions imbibed car

dreds of students who fecked to it kissed the gold away from many off the Great hat lived in other European during the winter.

tal knowledge which was not food the cred irons One stands in awe

symbolise commerce

have interiors

by gave

which malich!te,

od and aspirations and it is not aut-able things about the climate of Patro- dad of anarchists, many of whom the barbarin marziócesce of its decor. couples, fearmies their trade meth! In fact there are so many disagree for them and brought out a sort of at the hogezeas of this church and

prising that when he planned a etry grad that there is a legend which tells coraldenng his purpose. it should re-

us that the devil told Peter the Groshave from time to time come to the semble the modern cities of Europe, to selset this place and by so doing Laited States and given no little trou-

that be patterned after the would become great as it would rather that be

of his own country.

TE ! has many Interesting!

cities

So.

I

these souis.coceeded to build the

Peter

le come to

.

days was never popular for tourists.

22 uncomfortable · Mon

The great church is pradually

ے فوج کے بھی کئے کی محرم درجے کے

an Deder the Grest

The Cathedra?

this grant mekan,

Great is eltran test in height and that of the horno seventeen feet, The greatness of the statue lles in the 201 tion, as the horse rears on its hind legs after the favorite

manner of Velasques in his well known portaitz

This museum beot Ferdlasad IV.

Religion

alaking although it coat a fabulous sum of money to stak piles for the foundation.

lon. This is of course, owinx Petrograd is a new city, as Russian drive many people to him (the devil) sights and while even in the pre-war

to the enormous structure being built

The gigantie winter palace of the liths of great-size. upon made ground. In 1703 Peter the Great and that he would repay Peter fami

Il-fated Czar is a great pile of brick | gan when Catherine 7I had part of the The Kazan Cathedral was bullt aft- and stone containing many rooms and building erected in which to keep a With his accustomed per those who did Visit it were well repaid or a 20 last the foundations of the fortressrence

Кал er a model of St. Peter's at Rome. a costly relics.

The people of Petrograč seem to be of St. Peter and St. Paul as the nucleus city and superised the work himself.

for their discomforts, for the hotels though it is much smaller. Its interior arch and the admiralty building also collected and it gradually grew into many shrines along the street before

Close by is the great all number of treasures she had

very religious in a way toy, there are The foundation 2000 of the future capital

self had cod food, but the sleeping a decoration shows the same barbarie, the American Embassy, which is one of that

ཐ multabis quarters were cam city marked & revolution in erected the history of Russia. as it signalized Moscow,

he had s

As court moved from commodations

It is best known to the of the few owned by our government splendor.

which they always stop and cross Then he Then ha

Famous Statue place a dezake

themselves in the manner cred by among the Baltic of peasants to ordered thousands and the plumbing unsanitary to the N

to the city and que

Bat even on the food average American by pletures of the Before the war it was so dimcult to mang last degres. powers by the Russ.an Empire and but homes for themselves. A special on the city was unique for even stations by the people.

Petrograd is rich in statuary and the Greek Church and entirely differ columns as a background for demon, rent a sultabis building for our Am-

Cross Hundreds of bassador that it was finally decided beautiful bridges which

the ent from that of the Roman Catholic france -pon the stage of West-tar wie thosed throukhout the 'batore the war one was compelled to an

politics as we no la the cocortex-m!rs to meet this expense. A scarcity: Pay forty cents for a cup of bad cot¡bousands gather here at the cal of; to purchase as elegant browa stone Nera at various places. These tridres This however, do not prevent them cial world.

made of Finland granite and from getting into a quarrel or a light of building stone caused the issue of

fee. whits the best tea could be ab- almost any demagogue and as there buliding near the Russian Government are Founded By Peter The Great

During the present unset adorned at each end by huge statues immediately afterward, so after all 12 Peter the Great allotted afty square for

an order that co stone must be used! is beverage was always drunk from makes an excellent. place for demon-led condition Ambassador

ised ained for about three cents per glass, open space before this church buildings.

Francis The greatest of all monuments that seems that all this religious effort is a for building is any other part of the glasses never from caps.

strations vera's (Ressian miles) for the ata ef Empira until the capital was

haa speat little of his time in this erected to Peter the Great, by Cath- mere superstition. While there are the city

The church in memory of Alexander building which is in the midst of some erine II. I regarded by artists as many educational Institutions in Pet- The chief street was known pleted.

ex: compelled xl men

Great Churches as the Nevsky Prospect which takes who

II is one of those beautiful buildings of the wildest scenes.

most perfect equestrian statue rogrid the larger parts of the popula over 500 serts to build

every Russian eliy the with many dames which are a perfect! A visit to the Hermitage-k museum; the world has ever known.

own. It is a tion are ignorant and enwashed, the Ha name from the Neva River which homes in his new city which accounts churches are perhaps the most costly riot of color, beautiful blues, delicate and picture gallery built by Catherine colossal figure of Pater the Great on latter werd being meant in the literal divides the city. This street is the for the beautiful residences along the inces of the place and in Petrograd pinks intermingled with gold Broadway of Petrograd and a three Nera So after all be not only found- St Isaac's Cathedral, the Cathedral of magnificent mesale pictures

and 11. is well worth a trip to Petrograd homeback, in the act of reining up his seas for outside of the real high class miles in length. According to a well-edit but he built it and peopled it as Kazan and the wonderful church bullt, more Russian than either of the oth talna

in quiet times, for this gallery com-horse at the edge of precipice "to Rastan the people of the entire Emp kaew Russian historian the city had well.

some of the world's greatest overlook the great city he bullt." said pire ars anything but clean and ath la memory of the Czar Alexander 1.Vers and circumference of twenty-four mica:

wonderfully artistic in a paintings and statuary and like the Catherine If when the status was tractive, yet they deserve a better fate After a time the elty became a creati who was assassinated in 1831.

two churches la supported by mono- i falsked. The state of Peter the) than what is being meled put to them.

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Belgian Students resuming sin by on the reopenmm of the famous University of Louvain.

DCINOS OF THE DUFFS

MON, WOULD YOU BE TERESTED IN A BOTTLE OP VINILGAR FOR 5 1500 ?

DO YOU GET ME?

I'LL SAY I

WOULD!

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Natives vorting diamond- in South African mining district.

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Two U.S. battleships in the newly-built dry docks at Norfolk.

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The Fellow Was 21 Honest Crock!

IF THAT COP STOPS

ME OR SAYS ANYTHING TO ME I'LL JUST

·TELL HIM I THOUGHT IT WAS VINEGAR-

COME NOW TOM, DINNER IS READY

I'LL BE THERE IN JUST A MINUTE - 1 WANT TO GO DOWN. AUD-LOOK AT THE

FURNACE

・VINEGAR!

WHAT DO You KNOW ABOUT

THAT?

BY ALLMAN,

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