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Identifier: russiawithtehera00karl (find matches)
Title: Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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)lic with the principality of Moscow. In 1570 TzarIvan the T«rrible advanced against Pskov, whose inhabitants he suspectedof treason, but he allowed himself to be turned from his plan of destroyingthe city by tln! r(!j)reH(ntations of the monk Nicliolas Salos, who feignculmadness to effect his end. The Kremlin (KpoMJii,; PI. 15, 1, 2), situai(!(l in the angle be-tween the Velikaya and lh(; Pskova, is snrrounded by a limestonewall, dating from \2iW>. It (ommands a good vi(;w of the town andof the valleys of the two rivers.— In the fiiiddle of the Ki-eniii!)rises th(! conHpicnous — ^Cathedral of the Holy Thinitv (PI. 0; li, 1), founded nhmiill.iH f)ut dating in its present forni from UVM-\)\). It is HX) ft. lon<r,IlM It. wide, and i^nC) ft. \)\<r\\ (to \\\r lop i,\ the cross). There are 4-i Jioutt s. PSKOV. From Berlin
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Plan of Pskov. No. 1 (B, 2), Alexandor II. MonumeDt; 2 (B, 3), Arch-Ijishops Palace; 3 (B, 2), Bazaar; 4 (C, 3), Cadet Xcsidemy. --Cathedrals: -13 (B, 3), Club of the Noblesse; 14 (B, 2), Consistory; 15 (C, 3), GirlsHigh School; 16 (B, 3), Governors House; 17 (B, 3), High School; 18 (B, 3),Imperial Bank; 19 (A, 1), John the Baptist Convent; 20 (C, 2, 3), KutuzovGar(i«-n; 21 (B, 2), Law Courts; 22 (C, 3), Modern School; 23 (B, 3), Novo-Voznesenski Convent; 24 (B, 3), Pogankin House; 25 (B, 3), Police Sta-tion; 26 (B, 2), Post & Telegraph Office; 27 (B, 3), Seminary; 28 (B, C, 2),Theatre; 29 (B, 4), Training College. to St. Petersburg. LUGA. ,S. Rotde. 43 five domes. The entrance is preceded by a wide vaulted flight ofsteps, thirty-three in number. The lofty vaulting of the central space is borne by four massivepiers. To the left of the ikonostas is the Tomb of St. Gabriel (Vsevolod),the first Prince of Pskov (d. 1138); the tomb is of silver and dates from1834. Vsevolods sword is a

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