Worst of all were the length and conditions of the Russian church services which they, as visiting churchmen, were required to attend. “All their churches are void of seats,” complained Paul. “There is not one, even for the Bishop. You see the people all through the service standing like rocks, motionless, or incessantly bending with their devotions. God help us for the length of their prayers and chants and masses.… Custom has made them insensible of weariness.… We never left the church but tottering on our legs after so much standing.… We remained very weak with pains in our backs and legs
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