The dignity of Moscow was preserved by the fact that the coronations must take place there.

But there was no longer a reactionary party scheming for a return to the Ancient City.

The seed scattered by Peter had everywhere taken hold upon the soil, and now began to burst into flower.

A university was founded at Moscow.

St.Petersburg was filled with French artists and scholars, and had an Academy of Art and of Science, which the great Voltaire asked permission to join, while conferring with Ivan Shuvalof over the History of Peter the Great which he was then engaged in writing.