Russian Life To-day

It would be much more satisfactory to one's self to try and write a _book_ about the peasantry of Russia, rather than attempt to say all that one wants to say in a single chapte...

Amongst all the interesting experiences of an unusually varied and adventurous life, since, in the very middle of my Oxford course I had, for health's sake, to spend a couple of...

The Russian Church is a daughter of the Byzantine Church--the youngest daughter--and only dates from the close of the tenth century, when monks came to Kieff from Constantinople...

Two years ago, when I was in conversation with one of our leading diplomatists, who has a very intimate knowledge of the Russian people, their Emperor and governing classes, I a...

I welcome the opportunity that this chapter affords me of defining the position taken by our Church in Russia, for it is just the same there as in Germany, France, Belgium, and...

Fortunately for those who want further particulars than such a book as this can give them--and it will fail in its purpose if it does not make many readers _wish_ to have them--...

It is well sometimes to define our terms and phrases, and it is absolutely necessary in this case. What is it that we mean when we speak of the religious life of a people, Chris...

"There are no two powers in the world--and there have been no other two in history--_more_ distinct in character, _less_ conflicting in interests, and more naturally _adapted_ f...

One interesting figure has held the attention of the Continent of Europe for many long years, appealing to the imagination and baffling comprehension, but will never fill the sa...

The Jewish question was the first of many I was called upon to consider after crossing the Russian frontier, for my first service within the empire was the Confirmation of a Jew...

I will begin my opening chapter by explaining how I come to have the joy and privilege of travelling far and wide, as I have done, in the great Russian Empire. I go there as Ass...

The Social Problem, as it presents itself to thoughtful people in Russia, really demands a book to itself. No doubt it will come before long, and from some experienced pen. It i...

The whole life of the Russian people reminds those who visit them continually and in every possible way that they are in a religious country; for everywhere there is the _ikon_,...