Russia
I should like to set the reader’s mind at rest at once. I am not going to ask him to read a historical treatise on the origins of the Russian people, nor am I going to lead him into the obscure pathways and dim shadows of the remote past.
I should like to set the reader’s mind at rest at once. I am not going to ask him to read a historical treatise on the origins of the Russian people, nor am I going to lead him...
2. CHAPTER II.The Russian peasant is the most important factor in Russian life. He constitutes the majority of the nation. The peasant not only tills the arable land, but he owns the greater...
3. CHAPTER III.The very word nobility in connection with Russia is misleading. There is no English word which is the equivalent of the Russian word for nobility—_dvorianstvo_. In French, there...
4. CHAPTER IV.Up till October 30, 1905 (O.S., October 7), Russia was an unlimited autocracy. The Emperor bore the title of Unlimited Autocrat of all the Russias. But Russia possessed, neverth...
5. CHAPTER V.I have already said in the preceding chapter that the principles of central and parliamentary government in Russia, and the theory of local administration and local self-governm...
6. CHAPTER VI.The great danger in studying Russian life is to pay so much importance to the trees that the wood escapes notice. The temptation to do so where Russia is concerned is all the gr...
7. CHAPTER VII.In Russia the representatives of the liberal professions—lawyers, doctors, professors, literary men, agricultural experts, statists, schoolmasters, journalists—are denoted, as a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The Russian Church calls itself the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Orthodox Church. It is a national Church, and at the same time it is a branch of a great Christian community whic...
9. CHAPTER IX.Education, like everything else in Russia, has, in the course of its existence, experienced many sharp ups and downs, which were the outcome in the past of the vicissitudes of h...
10. CHAPTER X.The judicial system of to-day in Russia dates from what is called the Epoch of the Great Reforms—that is, of the reforms made in 1864 by the Emperor Alexander II. His new judici...
11. CHAPTER XI.Gogol, the greatest of Russian humorists, has a passage in one of his books, where in exile he cries out to his country to reveal the secret of her fascination.