"Moscow" Article -- Table of Contents

Part 1. Moscow - General Description; Streets, Churches, Palaces, Commercial Areas, etc.

Part 2. Moscow: Climate, Water Supply, Population, Commercial Life

Part 3. Moscow: Universities, Colleges, Scientific Societies, Museums, Press, Hospitals

Part 4. Moscow: Theatre, Russian Languages, Intellectual and Social Life

Part 5. Moscow: Suburbs

Part 6. Moscow: History



The article above was written by: Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin, recipient of the Gold Medal of Russian Geographical Society, 1864; crossed North Manchuria from Transbaikalia to the Amur, 1864; author of General Sketch of the Orography of East Siberia; In Russian and French Prisons; Recent Science in the Nineteenth Century; and Memoirs of a Revolutionist.

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By the way...
Some Quotations on Moscow

"Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensations. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today."
-- Svetlana Alliluyeva (1925- ), Russian writer, in her: Twenty Letters to a Friend

"Moscow... what surge that sound can start
In every Russian's inmost heart!"
-- Aleksander S. Pushkin (1799-1837), Russian poet and writer, in: Eugene Onegin

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