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Bk. IX. Ch. VII. MOSCOW. 491 complicated a building. At the same time it must be imagmed as painted with the most brilliant colors; its domes gilt, and relieved by blue, green, and red, and altogether a combination of as much barbarity as it is possible to bring together in so small a space, io ^ "fk^n crown the whole, according to the legend, Ivan ordered the eyes of the architect to be put out lest he should ever surpass his own handi- work ; and we may feel grateful that nothing so barbarous was ever afterwards attempted in Europe. Though not strictly speaking in Russia itself, there is at Kurtea d'Argyisch, in Wallachia, 90 miles northwest from Bucharest, a church
