Identifier: curiousquestions00kill (find matches)
Title: Curious questions in history, literature, art, and social life. Designed as a manual of general information
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Killikelly, Sarah H. (Sarah Hutchins), 1840-1912
Subjects: Questions and answers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Keystone
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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five gates. The principal gate of the Kremlin is called the Re-deemers Gate: it has a picture of the Saviour overit, and even the emperor must take off his hat when hepasses through the gate. Among the buildings of the Kremlin are the greatImperial Palace; the Cathedral of the Assumption(founded in 1326), in which the Russian emperors havebeen crowned for three hundred years; the Cathedralof the Archangel Michael (in which the Russian emper-ors were buried, down to the time of Peter the Great);and the Cathedral of the Annunciation, in which manyof them were baptized and married; the floor of thiscathedral is paved with jasper, agate, and cornelian. The Ivan Veliki, or Great Tower, contains thirty-fourbells ; and near it (unmounted) is the Tzar Kolokol, orGreat Bell, the largest in the world. The principal streets in Moscow lead from the Krem-lin like the spokes of a wheel; and around them runhandsome boulevards forming circles, one a mile, theother a mile and a half, from the Kremlin.
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CURIOUS QUESTIONS. Inside the inner boulevard is the Kitan Gorod, orChinese Quarter, containing 121 acres. The city of Moscow is said to have been foundedabout A.D. 1150 : from the fourteenth to the eighteenthcentury it was the capital, and it is still the richest city,of Russia. 108. PASCAL. It was Pascal who said, Whoever would fullymeasure the vanity of human life must consider thecauses and the effects of the passion of love. If thenose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face ofthe earth would have been different. Blaise Pascal was one of the most distinguished phi-losophers and scholars of the seventeenth century. Hewas born in Auvergne, France, in 1623 ; died in Paris,1662. He was a noted Port-Royalist. These were a body of learned men, theologians, con-nected with the convent of Post-Royal des Champs,near Versailles, who played an important part in theJansenist controversy. This long controversy in the Roman-Catholic Churchwas chiefly respecting the doctrine of free grace

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