We alighted here and visited all the apartments and the grounds around it.

No description could do it justice; a series of pictures alone could give an idea of its beauties.

While here several other royal carriages with the various deputations to the coronation ceremonies, soon to occur at Moscow, arrived, and the cortege of carriages with the gorgeous costumes of the visitors alone furnished an exciting scene, heightened by the proud bearing of the richly caparisoned horses, chiefly black, and the showy trappings of the liveried attendants.
"On our return to our rooms we dressed for dinner and proceeded in the same manner to the palace in the gardens called the English Palace.

Here we found assembled in the great reception hall the distinguished company, in number forty-seven, of many nations, who were to sit down to the table together.

When dinner was announced we entered the grand dining-hall and found a table most gorgeously prepared with gold and silver service and flowers.