Note E — Chapter XI · THE TROITSA—DMITRI DONSKOÏ—VASILI DIMITRIÉVITCH, AND VITOVT OF LITHUANIA.
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This word is derived from an old Russian one, meaning firestone: a name happily conveying the ideas of the hearth and of a fortress. The elevation crowned by the Kreml, or Kremlin, is composed of a flinty rock. The term signifies an enclosure, enclosed in stone; though the first enclosures were of wood.