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LEFT EBEISLEB 372 SBEMLIN out the country. He was generally con- sidered to be, in many respects, the master violinist of his day. At the out- .sSr^N FRITZ KREISLER break of the World War in 1914, he joined the Austrian colors, and was wounded at Lemberg. Having recovered, criticism influenced him to abandon the concert stage. At the end of the war, however, he resumed his appearances and was received with even greater ac- clamation than before. In addition to his performances as a player of the violin, he composed many pieces of great merit. KREMERSITE, an isometric mineral, occuring in octahedrons, as a sublimation product, in the fumaroles of Vesuvius. Color, ruby-red; soluble in water. Com- position (according to Kremers), a hy- drated chloride of potassium, ammonium, and iron. KREMLIN, THE, an architectural pile in Moscow, on the N. bank of the river Moskva. It forms the center of the city of Moscow, and around it, with a radius of about a mile, is a line of boule- vards, extending, however, only on the N. side of the river. Outside of this line, and concentric with it, is another line of boulevards, with a radius of a mile and a half; while beyond all, and forming the girdle of the city, is the outer rampart, with a circumference of 26 English miles. The Kremlin com- prises the principal buildings, as the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Vir- gin, founded in 1326, a small but gorge- ously decorated edifice; the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, containing the tombs of all the czars down to the time of Peter the Great, who changed the royal burial place to Petrograd, the Church of the Annunciation, the floor of which is paved with jaspers, agates, and carnelians of various shapes; the tower of Ivan Veliki, 200 feet in height. .:— ISThTTiTT. I l_l I I. I I I 1^1 M 1^ 1 I I I ■ .■ '■■" I ij|_'_ :ii^ KREMLIN he visited America, where he was well and surmounted by a magnificent gilded received. Following the entrance of the dome from which, as from all the domes United States in the war, unwarranted of Moscow, rises the "honorable cross";