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Rh Bk. IX. Ch. VII. TOWERS. 493 more spread out, it would be difficult to find a more elegant exterior anywhere. As it is only 90 ft. long by 50 wide, it is too small for architectural effect, but barring this it is the most elegant example of the Armeno-Russian or Neo-Byzantine architecture which is known to exist anywhere, and one of the most suggestive, if the Russians knew how to use it.i 953. Tower of Ivan Veliki, Moscow, with the Cathedrals of the Assumption and the Archangel Gabriel. Towers. Next in importance to the churches themselves are the belfries which always accompany tliein. The Russians seem never to have ^ The particulars and illustrations of this church are taken from a paper by Heinrich Reissenberger, in the '• Jalir- buch der K. K. Commission fiirEnthal- tnng der Baudenkmale," 1860. A model of it, full size, Avas exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.