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Page 148
... gold and silver gilt . On his head was his sable calpack of great value : he was entirely covered with a kind of winding - sheet of white satin , with a cross of gold - leaf from the top of his head to his feet . Round him were candles ...
... gold and silver gilt . On his head was his sable calpack of great value : he was entirely covered with a kind of winding - sheet of white satin , with a cross of gold - leaf from the top of his head to his feet . Round him were candles ...
Page 152
... gold : only they do not make them known , for fear of the Turks , and from the abundance of their wealth . The Domina , indeed , consort of the Beg , is accustomed every year to take a thousand pieces of gold from the people , by way of ...
... gold : only they do not make them known , for fear of the Turks , and from the abundance of their wealth . The Domina , indeed , consort of the Beg , is accustomed every year to take a thousand pieces of gold from the people , by way of ...
Page 158
... gold ; and before it was suspended a chandelier , filled with tapers of green wax . The screen , like the rest of the church , was covered with pictures , some of which were tolerably well executed ; and all of them very curious , from ...
... gold ; and before it was suspended a chandelier , filled with tapers of green wax . The screen , like the rest of the church , was covered with pictures , some of which were tolerably well executed ; and all of them very curious , from ...
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afterwards Akhmil Arabic Archimandrite attended banquet Basil the Macedonian beautiful Beg of Moldavia Beg of Wallachia Beg sent Beg's bells Bishops blessing called calpack castle censer ceremony chair chaunt choir Christ church Clergy cloth coach Constantine Corta Cossack country Cossacks Crâl cross cupolas custom Deacons deceased door Easter Emperor entered Feast Festival gardens gate gold Gospel Grandees Greek hand handsome Heads of Convents Holy horses houses Iconostasis incense inhabitants Jews Khatman Akhmil Kiov kissed lofty Lord the Patriarch magnificent manner mass Matthi Beg Metropolitan miles Monks morning Moscow Muscovites Nicolas Oriental Translation painted palace passed Patriarch of Antioch Paul of Aleppo Persian person piastres Poles Prayer of Absolution present Priests Prince recited river robes round royal door saying SECT Silistria silver sprinkled standing stood Sunday Tabernacle Tartars thurible took town troops Turks Vasili Voivoda Wallachia walls whilst whole Zenobius ثم علي