James Mack (1827-64)
St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow Sep 1856
RCIN 2945148
This photograph of the cathedral shows the splendid system of illumination arranged for the coronation. A member of Granville’s suite recorded ‘Every dome was lighted up in the most beautiful manner […] in glittering lights. They have no gas, but glass pots full of tallow with a wick’.
