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 Slavianisky Bazar Hotel Moscow 14 Dec 1903

My dearest ,

I wired & wrote you on Saturday after arrival here. I also wired, & had reply from him, ‘home greetings’. I did little on Saturday but see Consul, read home letters and wrote. Yesterday all shops and places were closed until the evening. I went to the morning service at St Saviour’s Church, the greatest church in Moscow, magnificently decorated & with magnificent ritual. Bishop wearing his mitre & surrounded by liveried choir & priests. This church is just beyond the Kremlin - I walked back thro’ the Kremlin & saw the 3 cathedrals therein; the Archangel Cathedral, where all the Russian Kings & Emperors are buried; the