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Rh depredations, the church contains many relics and images, some of them of great antiquity. There are shrines in memory of Yaroslav, Vladimir, and other of the ancient rulers of Russia; the shrine and tomb of St. Anne, daughter of King Olaf of Sweden, and wife of Prince Yaroslav I.; and the shrines or tombs of many other saints, princes, archbishops, patriarchs, and other dignitaries whose names have been connected with the

history of the church and the city. So many tombs are here that there is little room for more.

"You would hardly expect one of the curious relics of a church to be the result of piracy, yet such appears to be the case in this sacred