so happy, looked so healthy; many of them are orphan girls who had no home; nowhere else _to_ be. They are not Catholic, but of the Protestant Church of Russia, though _I_ see little difference between it and the Catholic. The churches are magnificent,--such wealth of ornamentation. The bishops seem like Catholic priests. The people are very devout, but still very lively, and _kind_; they seem to me to be the kindest people I ever saw. All the royal persons look kind; they have good faces; but the kindest face of all is that of the Czar. He is young, handsome, looks like a mature college graduate. The Czarina is also handsome; she was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria; they have four children, are very fond of them, and of _each other_. We went on an excursion to Moscow, saw the city Napoleon went to capture, and which he found trouble in getting out of. We went to the Kremlin where he stayed; the rooms he lived in the few days while the city was burning, and the ways by which he retreated. We visited the Grand Duke, who is the Governor-General of Moscow, and whose wife is sister of the Empress, another granddaughter of Victoria, the daughter of Alice of Hesse, who died many years ago of diphtheria while nursing three children through it. The Grand Duchess is said to be the handsomest woman in Russia. I think that may be true, and after I returned to Petersburg she _sent me her picture_--beautiful!! Everybody was so kind to us all, but I felt they were especially kind to me. I never saw such treatment of guests; they wouldn’t _let_ you spend money. Carriages were at the disposal of all the delegates, all places of amusement free, guides provided; lunches, like dinners, provided each day at the conference, a hundred persons fed somewhere, two or three times a day, and _such_ feeding!! Very many of the delegates were old friends of mine. I had met them in five other conferences; they were so genial and attentive.