[Footnote 77: Cherson, or Corsun, is mentioned by
Herberstein (apud Pagi tom. iv. p. 56) as the place of
Wolodomir's baptism and marriage; and both the tradition and
the gates are still preserved at Novogorod. Yet an
observing traveller transports the brazen gates from
Magdeburgh in Germany, (Coxe's Travels into Russia, &c.,
vol. i. p. 452;) and quotes an inscription, which seems to
justify his opinion. The modern reader must not confound
this old Cherson of the Tauric or Crimaean peninsula, with a
new city of the same name, which has arisen near the mouth
of the Borysthenes, and was lately honored by the memorable
interview of the empress of Russia with the emperor of the
West.]