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The Emperor entered the Cathedral of the Assumption. The crowd spread out again more evenly, and the clerk led Petya pale and breathless to the Tsar-cannon. Several people were sorry for Petya, and suddenly a crowd turned toward him and pressed round him. "One might easily get killed that way! What do they mean by it? Killing people!
Andrey Yefimitch was embarrassed and he kissed the image, while Mihail Averyanitch pursed up his lips and prayed in a whisper, and again tears came into his eyes. Then they went to the Kremlin and looked there at the Tsar-cannon and the Tsar-bell, and even touched them with their fingers, admired the view over the river, visited St. Saviour's and the Rumyantsev museum. They dined at Tyestov's.
Some of the natives learned the foreign art, and exactly a century later a Russian, or at least a Slav, called Tchekhof, produced a famous "Tsar-cannon," weighing as much as 96,000 lbs. The connection thus established with the mechanical arts of the West was always afterwards maintained, and we find frequent notices of the fact in contemporary writers.
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