Beyond them the stable-men and keepers, a little army, in red cloth tunics, with wide trousers tucked into high boots, all holding their fur caps in their hands, standing stiffly at attention, clean, honest, and not too intelligent.
The castle of Osterno is built on the lines of many Russian country seats, and not a few palaces in Moscow.

The Royal Palace in the Kremlin is an example.

A broad entrance-hall, at the back of which a staircase as broad stretches up to a gallery, around which the dwelling-rooms are situated.

At the head of the staircase, directly facing the entrance-hall, high folding doors disclose the drawing-room, which is almost a throne room.

All gorgeous, lofty, spacious, as only Russian houses are.